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  2. Helicopter flight controls - Wikipedia

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    In a hover, the cyclic controls the movement of the helicopter forward, back, and laterally. During forward flight, the cyclic control inputs cause flight path changes similar to fixed-wing aircraft flight; left or right inputs cause the helicopter to roll into a turn in the desired direction, and forward and back inputs change the pitch ...

  3. Excavator controls - Wikipedia

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    Additionally there is a switch on the right hand joystick to operate attached tools. The most commonly used control pattern throughout the world is the ISO controls. In the ISO control pattern, the left hand joystick controls Swing (left & right) and the Stick Boom (away & close) , and the right hand joystick controls the Main Boom (up & down ...

  4. Reeves AN/MSQ-77 Bomb Directing Central - Wikipedia

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    The AN/MSQ-77 compensation for antenna lag during [specify] rate-aided computer track used a telescopic CCTV system with operator's joystick to aim the antenna axis toward the A/C (e.g., bomb bay section of the fuselage).

  5. Joystick - Wikipedia

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    Possible elements of a video game joystick: 1. stick, 2. base, 3. trigger, 4. extra buttons, 5. autofire switch, 6. throttle, 7. hat switch (POV hat), 8. suction cups. A joystick, sometimes called a flight stick, is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling.

  6. Side-stick - Wikipedia

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    The side-stick is used in many modern military fighter aircraft, such as the F-16 Fighting Falcon, Mitsubishi F-2, Dassault Rafale, and F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning 2, Chengdu J-20, AIDC F-CK 1 Ching-Kuo and also on civil aircraft, such as the Sukhoi Superjet 100, Airbus A320 and all subsequent Airbus aircraft, [2] including the largest passenger jet in service, the Airbus A380.

  7. Flight control surfaces - Wikipedia

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    The elevator is a moveable part of the horizontal stabilizer, hinged to the back of the fixed part of the horizontal tail. The elevators move up and down together. When the pilot pulls the stick backward, the elevators go up. Pushing the stick forward causes the elevators to go down. Raised elevators push down on the tail and cause the nose to ...

  8. Gravis PC GamePad - Wikipedia

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    The GamePad Pro utilized the 'button' signal lines on an analog PC joystick port to send digital signals (referred to as "GrIP") [1] to allow for both the use of ten buttons and the simultaneous use of up to four controllers connected by the controller's built-in piggyback plug. A switch on the pack of the non-USB pad could be used to allow the ...

  9. Herbst maneuver - Wikipedia

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    The Herbst maneuver (also known as a J-turn [1] [2]) is an air combat maneuver that uses post-stall technology such as thrust vectoring and advanced flight controls to achieve high angles of attack. [3] The Herbst maneuver allows an aircraft to quickly reverse direction using a combination of high angle-of-attack and rolling.