This is the aircraft:
Now as far as I know, those were either not very controllable, or (in the case of the Wright Brothers, for example) used wing warping to roll and a coordinated rudder to correct yaw from induced drag.
I am wondering if such a machine would be controllable only by weight shift (pitch would be Ok I guess, but roll is the problem). There is no induced drag with weight shift (I suppose) so we re Ok there. But roll ? Could it roll controllably ? What do you think ?
Now as far as I know, those were either not very controllable, or (in the case of the Wright Brothers, for example) used wing warping to roll and a coordinated rudder to correct yaw from induced drag.
I am wondering if such a machine would be controllable only by weight shift (pitch would be Ok I guess, but roll is the problem). There is no induced drag with weight shift (I suppose) so we re Ok there. But roll ? Could it roll controllably ? What do you think ?
