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They were fortunate enough that cables on both sides were inverted; therefore the ailerons "merely" worked in reverse. If they had reversed the cables on one si
by wazoox 4y ago
They were fortunate enough that cables on both sides were inverted; therefore the ailerons "merely" worked in reverse. If they had reversed the cables on one side and not the other, that would have been even tougher to sort out and maybe impossible.
- stavros 4y agoYep, that would have been a second elevator. There would be completely no way to roll the plane in that case, though I wonder if the plane has a natural tendency to fly level anyway.
- mannykannot 4y agoNot so much an elevator, given their position on the trailing edge of the wing, but more like a flap with limited deflection both up and down. Like flaps in general, this would have some effect on pitch, but I doubt it would be enough to make pitch control impossible (or nearly so). My guess is that in this scenario, small angles of yoke deflection would have little effect, and the pilot's almost instinctual response would be to increase that deflection, quickly reaching the point where the spoilers would kick in, giving the sort of roll response the pilot was seeking (together with some unexpected yaw that I suspect also happened in the actual case). It would be a problem, but not quite so counterintuitive and baffling.
- skykooler 4y agoIn that case, the spoilers would still deploy when large control inputs were given, so roll control would still be present albeit with a very wide "dead zone".