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Throttle movement
Hallo,
i know that French;Italian and Japanese airplanes prior and in WW2 had an opostite throttlemovement than British;American and German airplanes. I mean that to increase power you had to pull the Throttle backwards and not forward. Now i asumed that after WW2 with the availability of surplus British and American planes to the mentioned countrys this habit was not longer followed. Now i read that the French got T28 in the early sixties and modified them to the COIN-configeration and the reversal of the throttlequadrantmovement was one of the mentioned modifikations. Now my question: have Mirages or Rafales or any other airplanes this oddity also. Or became it extinct in the world. Thank You Max |
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Max Richter wrote: Hallo, i know that French;Italian and Japanese airplanes prior and in WW2 had an opostite throttlemovement than British;American and German airplanes. I mean that to increase power you had to pull the Throttle backwards and not forward. Now i asumed that after WW2 with the availability of surplus British and American planes to the mentioned countrys this habit was not longer followed. Now i read that the French got T28 in the early sixties and modified them to the COIN-configeration and the reversal of the throttlequadrantmovement was one of the mentioned modifikations. Now my question: have Mirages or Rafales or any other airplanes this oddity also. Or became it extinct in the world. Thank You Max If not, it should have become extinct! |
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I have a few hours in FENECs, the French T28 and unless they were modified
back to US configurations, the throttles where the same as the old B's and C's I flew. A Rafele I flew at Empire had a "normal" throttle configuration. Just my observation of these 2 aircraft. I can not comment if either one was modified previously. Jake "Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message news In article , Max Richter wrote: Hallo, i know that French;Italian and Japanese airplanes prior and in WW2 had an opostite throttlemovement than British;American and German airplanes. I mean that to increase power you had to pull the Throttle backwards and not forward. Now i asumed that after WW2 with the availability of surplus British and American planes to the mentioned countrys this habit was not longer followed. Now i read that the French got T28 in the early sixties and modified them to the COIN-configeration and the reversal of the throttlequadrantmovement was one of the mentioned modifikations. Now my question: have Mirages or Rafales or any other airplanes this oddity also. Or became it extinct in the world. Thank You Max If not, it should have become extinct! |
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Max Richter wrote:
Hallo, i know that French;Italian and Japanese airplanes prior and in WW2 had an opostite throttlemovement than British;American and German airplanes. I mean that to increase power you had to pull the Throttle backwards and not forward. Now i asumed that after WW2 with the availability of surplus British and American planes to the mentioned countrys this habit was not longer followed. Now i read that the French got T28 in the early sixties and modified them to the COIN-configeration and the reversal of the throttlequadrantmovement was one of the mentioned modifikations. Now my question: have Mirages or Rafales or any other airplanes this oddity also. I asked an IAF pilot about this some years ago. He'd flown Ouragans, dual Mirages and Kfirs (the majority of his combat time was in A-4s). He said they and theVautour all had standard (forward = increased throttle) movement. The same was presumably true of Mysteres and Super Mysteres, but hehad npo personal experience. Guy |
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Guy Alcala wrote:
Max Richter wrote: Hallo, i know that French;Italian and Japanese airplanes prior and in WW2 had an opostite throttlemovement than British;American and German airplanes. I mean that to increase power you had to pull the Throttle backwards and not forward. Now i asumed that after WW2 with the availability of surplus British and American planes to the mentioned countrys this habit was not longer followed. Now i read that the French got T28 in the early sixties and modified them to the COIN-configeration and the reversal of the throttlequadrantmovement was one of the mentioned modifikations. Now my question: have Mirages or Rafales or any other airplanes this oddity also. I asked an IAF pilot about this some years ago. He'd flown Ouragans, dual Mirages and Kfirs (the majority of his combat time was in A-4s). He said they and theVautour all had standard (forward = increased throttle) movement. The same was presumably true of Mysteres and Super Mysteres, but hehad npo personal experience. Guy Wasn't the wing sweep lever on the F-111 changed early in its development programme?? IIRC, the engineers designed it so that, moved forward, the wings swept back (to go faster, same as throttle), moved back, the wings swept forward (to slow down - same as throttle). The early test pilots insisted it be changed to a 'natural' movement - back to sweep the wings back, forward to sweep them forward. Or was it the other way round ??? Ken |
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Ken Duffey wrote:
Wasn't the wing sweep lever on the F-111 changed early in its development programme?? IIRC, the engineers designed it so that, moved forward, the wings swept back (to go faster, same as throttle), moved back, the wings swept forward (to slow down - same as throttle). The early test pilots insisted it be changed to a 'natural' movement - back to sweep the wings back, forward to sweep them forward. I don't know why, but it reminds me of the timne I was at the Norfolk airport (departures on one side, arrivals on the other), standing outside waiting for my ride for and hour and a half. Finally took a taxi. When I got home, asked my wife why didn't bother to pick me up. There may have been a "WTF" in there. She said, "I was waiting on the DEPARTURE side of the airport. You were departing the airport, weren't you?" |
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Ken Duffey wrote:
Guy Alcala wrote: Max Richter wrote: Hallo, i know that French;Italian and Japanese airplanes prior and in WW2 had an opostite throttlemovement than British;American and German airplanes. I mean that to increase power you had to pull the Throttle backwards and not forward. Now i asumed that after WW2 with the availability of surplus British and American planes to the mentioned countrys this habit was not longer followed. Now i read that the French got T28 in the early sixties and modified them to the COIN-configeration and the reversal of the throttlequadrantmovement was one of the mentioned modifikations. Now my question: have Mirages or Rafales or any other airplanes this oddity also. I asked an IAF pilot about this some years ago. He'd flown Ouragans, dual Mirages and Kfirs (the majority of his combat time was in A-4s). He said they and theVautour all had standard (forward = increased throttle) movement. The same was presumably true of Mysteres and Super Mysteres, but hehad npo personal experience. Guy Wasn't the wing sweep lever on the F-111 changed early in its development programme?? IIRC, the engineers designed it so that, moved forward, the wings swept back (to go faster, same as throttle), moved back, the wings swept forward (to slow down - same as throttle). The early test pilots insisted it be changed to a 'natural' movement - back to sweep the wings back, forward to sweep them forward. Or was it the other way round ??? The wing sweep control (aka the Trombone handle) of the production a/c pulled back to sweep the wings back, and forward to sweep them forward; even so, it wasn't an intuitive design, and labelling the extremes FWD and AFT really didn't help. Bill Gunston, in his ARCO book on the F-111, says that at least three experienced pilots, including one company test pilot, got it wrong with serious consequences. He wrote that it's mildly amazing that 40 years after a/c controls began to be designed to resemble the system they were controlling to avoid errors, no one insisted on having a small 'wing' mounted on the cockpit side, which would be moved in exactly the same direction as you wanted the real one to, and which a single glance at would eliminate any possible confusion. Guy |
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Guy Alcala wrote:
The wing sweep control (aka the Trombone handle) of the production a/c pulled back to sweep the wings back, and forward to sweep them forward; even so, it wasn't an intuitive design, and labelling the extremes FWD and AFT really didn't help. Bill Gunston, in his ARCO book on the F-111, says that at least three experienced pilots, including one company test pilot, got it wrong with serious consequences. He wrote that it's mildly amazing that 40 years after a/c controls began to be designed to resemble the system they were controlling to avoid errors, no one insisted on having a small 'wing' mounted on the cockpit side, which would be moved in exactly the same direction as you wanted the real one to, and which a single glance at would eliminate any possible confusion. Guy Yes...pilot error will always be with us despite what Mary says.. -- -Gord. (use gordon in email) |
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My dad mentioned that the PB-4Y (single rudder B-24) had reversed throttles.
Sparky Hallo, i know that French;Italian and Japanese airplanes prior and in WW2 had an opostite throttlemovement than British;American and German airplanes. I mean that to increase power you had to pull the Throttle backwards and not forward. Now i asumed that after WW2 with the availability of surplus British and American planes to the mentioned countrys this habit was not longer followed. |
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