Posted on 10/12/2021 9:54:01 AM PDT by DFG
Glenn was Spam in a Can and just expected to lie there.
The article refers to a “Flying Tail” but was in fact using the elevator trim tab for pitch control. The flying tail came later. Jack Ridley and Yeager figured out how to use the trim to control the aircraft.
It was Jack Ridley (I think I may have me a stick), who actually invented the flying tail used by most supersonic aircraft today. He should have been a very rich man for that brilliant invention. His insight into using the trim for control enabled the supersonic control.
That one might know one another in both darkness and light...
Colossal balls!!
Not too many like him.
Sort of wonder why he was not part of the astronaut ranks.
Yeager did not have a college degree.
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