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  2. Aircraft flight control system - Wikipedia

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    Cockpit controls and instrument panel of a Cessna 182D Skylane. Generally, the primary cockpit flight controls are arranged as follows: [2] A control yoke (also known as a control column), centre stick or side-stick (the latter two also colloquially known as a control or joystick), governs the aircraft's roll and pitch by moving the ailerons (or activating wing warping on some very early ...

  3. Eagle Aircraft Eagle 150 - Wikipedia

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    The Eagle 150B is a development of the Eagle Aircraft X-TS from Western Australian inventors Neil Graham [1] and his father Deryck Graham. [2] Australian aeronautical engineer Graham Swannell and American aerodynamicist John Roncz were then engaged to design an aircraft to meet then-current JAR VLA requirements and demonstrate minimal stall characteristics. [2]

  4. Yoke (aeronautics) - Wikipedia

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    Collection of control yokes at Boeing Future of Flight Museum: 747, 707, B-29, Trimotor.The former two yokes are W-shaped, while the latter two are circular. The cockpit of Concorde, which has an M-shaped yoke mounted on a control column The cockpit of an Embraer ERJ with an M-shaped yoke "W"/"U" style yoke in a Cessna 152 light aircraft, mounted on a horizontal tube protruding from the ...

  5. AGM-45 Shrike - Wikipedia

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    AGM-45 Shrike is an American anti-radiation missile designed to home in on hostile anti-aircraft radar. The Shrike was developed by the Naval Weapons Center at China Lake in 1963 by mating a seeker head to the rocket body of an AIM-7 Sparrow .

  6. Curtiss A-8 - Wikipedia

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    YA-10 Shrike A-12 Shrike The Curtiss A-8 was a low-wing monoplane ground-attack aircraft built by the United States company Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company , designed in response to a 1929 United States Army Air Corps requirement for an attack aircraft to replace the A-3 Falcon .

  7. Douglas X-3 Stiletto - Wikipedia

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    The Douglas X-3 Stiletto is a 1950s United States experimental jet aircraft with a slender fuselage and a long tapered nose, manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Its primary mission was to investigate the design features of an aircraft suitable for sustained supersonic speeds, which included the first use of titanium in major airframe components.

  8. Slingsby Eagle - Wikipedia

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    Slingsby Type 42B Eagle 2 The second prototype introduced a simplified wing with no leading edge sweep-forward and the cutouts filled by the rear canopy. It won the two-seater class at the World Gliding Championships at Saint-Yan , France in 1956, piloted by Nicholas Goodhart and Frank Foster, coming second overall.

  9. Cox model engine - Wikipedia

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    The Space Bug was the first engine built entirely by Cox. It was designed for control line flying use only and was marketed as a "competition" engine and sold for $6.95. Back then there was no market for radio control, and free flight hadn't been considered by Cox at this time.