Madduck wrote:
spot wrote:
I was wondering about that as well. I thought maybe they were referring to hinge moment limiting when I saw that...that at high airspeeds and full down trim, there isn't enough control authority to move the stab.do you mean move the elevator?
with full down trim the leading edge of the stab will be pointed up, the plane will be arcing down at a high rate and, i'd assume, tight radius, relatively speaking to what the norm is? if the pilots are pulling back as hard as they could i could see the manual trim being locked up and, maaayyyybe, there not being enough air flowing over the elevator to be effective. which again, in this regime it's futile either way.
the only way to move the stab is with the trim, either electrically or manually.
Yeah, meant the elevator. sorry, thinking back to my B-1 days where we had a stabilator.
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