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Direct Lift Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

W.J. G. Pinsker
W.J. G. Pinsker*
Affiliation:
RAE, Bedford
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Control of flight is essentially control of lift. When one proposes—as we shall do here—to tamper with one of the most fundamental principles of aircraft control, it is evident that this may have far reaching repercussions and that such a venture cannot therefore be undertaken lightly. The elevator has been the primary longitudinal control since the earliest pioneering days and has served the aircraft well from its modest beginnings to this age of supersonic flight. Why do we want to change and what do we want to take its place; how will the pilot react to an altogether novel way of controlling the aeroplane? These are the questions one is bound to ask when direct lift control is suggested as an alternative and these are the questions which we shall attempt to answer here.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 74 , Issue 718 , October 1970 , pp. 817 - 825
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1970 

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