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Old 30th Mar 2003, 12:40
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Spruce Goose Question?

Watching it's one and only flight the other night on the tele was surprised to see what looked like a spoiler/s going up and down
in sync with it's minor pitch changes, above the inboard portion of the left wing I couldn't see the right.

Have never seen a large piston aircraft with spoilers before, and these appeared to be truly massive, on an appropriate scale to the aircraft anyone have any more insight?
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On an upswept wing, an inboard spoiler will have little pitch moment. It would have been a spoiler used for lateral control- a lift spoiler for one side only.
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