The Hunter was, I believe, succeeded as a product of the Hawker design
office by the AV8B's origin. Not yhe BAe Harrier, the Hawker P1127 Kestrel.
Neatly back to the original topic. Sort of. And completely OT!
Piers
On 29 Jun 2014 18:59, "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roll reversal does happen, but I think that the main reason for using lift
> spoilers for roll control is that it avoids adverse yaw. During flying
> training I was supposed to check for roll reversal in the Hunter on the
> solo supersonic trip. So you climb to 30k above the sea (west of Wales),
> drop the nose at full power and get it up to just transonic and before you
> recover from the dive you roll once each way and note the fact that it goes
> the wrong way. It went the right way, and I couldn’t be bothered to try
> again. It was probably my fault . . .
>
> Chris
>
> On 29 Jun 2014, at 18:47, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >>
> >> No, indeed. I don’t know the landing speed of a B-52, but it will not
> be low.
> >>
> >
> > Landing speed would be a bit high, but I'm not sure how much control
> you have to keep the wingtip up. As I recall, the B-52 uses spoilers for
> yaw just like the B-47 as ailerons would cause the wing to twist, resulting
> in reversed control. Not sure if this is true, just something I understood
> from history.
> >
> >
> > Chris
>
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