Originally Posted by Exhaustgases
Having important things like control surfaces operating on hydraulics is just plain stupid. Can you imagine a B-17 in the war days filled with holes, many that flew back to their bases with major parts missing, if they would have had hydraulic controls the tiniest of leaks would have doomed them. All important systems like controls should be triple redundant, hydraulic okay but then back it up with mechanical. Just like the jack screw, it needed 2 of them and a fail safe blocking system, and then a couple of come alongs and attach points so someone could crawl in there and manually adjust the position to get to the nearest base.
I suppose strong springs to center the stabilizer would be a good idea as well.
Astro14 pretty much explained everything.
Take into consideration that air travel still is by far safer than it has ever been before.
Having important things like control surfaces operating on hydraulics is just plain stupid. Can you imagine a B-17 in the war days filled with holes, many that flew back to their bases with major parts missing, if they would have had hydraulic controls the tiniest of leaks would have doomed them. All important systems like controls should be triple redundant, hydraulic okay but then back it up with mechanical. Just like the jack screw, it needed 2 of them and a fail safe blocking system, and then a couple of come alongs and attach points so someone could crawl in there and manually adjust the position to get to the nearest base.
I suppose strong springs to center the stabilizer would be a good idea as well.
Astro14 pretty much explained everything.
Take into consideration that air travel still is by far safer than it has ever been before.