The only airplanes I know of that use spoilers for roll control alone are some military aircraft. -Don Kennedy

 

The only airplanes I know of that use spoilers for roll control alone are some military aircraft.


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It's a recipe for disaster because the airplane is different enough that it really does require special training.

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Some of those pilots were very high-time pilots, with the best airline transport rating, which is the highest license a pilot can have, ... Some of them were only transport pilots with many thousands of hours of flying time that could not manage to fly this airplane.

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It's a dangerous airplane. Aerodynamically, it's a very unusual airplane.

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With ailerons, you have one aileron goes down and one goes up and what that does is redistribute the lift on the wing, ... The downgoing aileron increases the lift, the upgoing decreases the lift but the overall lift of the airplane is unchanged.

Don Kennedy

The only airplanes I know of that use spoilers for roll control alone are some military aircraft.

Don Kennedy