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From my limited reading, my understanding is that modern fighter jets work in this way. They use their aerodynamic surfaces in ways that are not considered "usu
by williamscales 6y ago
From my limited reading, my understanding is that modern fighter jets work in this way. They use their aerodynamic surfaces in ways that are not considered "usual flight", i.e. when we see the very cool looking J-turn. But all the pilot is doing in that situation is manipulating the joystick, the aircraft flight computer figures out how to manipulate the control surfaces.
- mcguire 6y agoIIRC, aircraft with forward swept wings are very unstable and can only be controlled with fly by wire controls. The control surfaces are not necessarily doing what the pilot controls say they should be doing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-swept_wing?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-swept_wing?wprov=sfla1
- Toutouxc 6y agoIt's called "relaxed stability". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed_stability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed_stability