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Flight Determination of the Effects of Rudder-pedal-force Characteristics on the Aiming Error in Azimuth of a Conventional Fighter Airplane

Lee Winograd, Rudolph D Van Dyke

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Report presenting flight tests to study the effect on aiming error in azimuth of a change in the rudder-pedal-force characteristics of a conventional fighter airplane equipped with an illuminated fixed gunsight. The effect of the modification on the mean azimuth tracking errors was insignificant, but pilots noted that the modified rudder made it tiring to fly the airplane for any length of time.

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Key concepts: Rudder, Airplane, Azimuth, Engineering, Aeronautics, Aerospace engineering, Physics, Optics