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Round handles and square handles
Posted: 29 Jan 2007, 22:27
by DispatchDragon
The question I posed isthis
Does anyone know the "legend" as to why aircraft have wheel shaped gear handles and aerofoil shaped flap handles????
The minutae one aquires hanging out in airport bars
:roll:
Leif
Posted: 30 Jan 2007, 06:45
by gevers1
:think: mmm, something to do with flying in the dark? Or visual clues for the hard of thinking ...
Posted: 30 Jan 2007, 08:20
by calypso
Blind pilots!
Posted: 30 Jan 2007, 17:08
by DispatchDragon
LOL
The Legend says it was Beechcraft that first introduced the idea after several
early Bonanzas came to a sudden stop as they turned off the runway. The orginal Bonanzas has keyboard style switches for everything - apparently the
flaps and gear switches were placed next to each other and as people turn off the runways they would reach over without looking and presto chango! instant braking - so apparently the good folks a Wichita came up with the two shapes so when you reached over you would know what you were pulling.
Like I said the stuff you learn sitting around BSing in Airport Hotel bars
Leif
Posted: 30 Jan 2007, 23:08
by Jetset
Apart from Scarebus, where the flap lever is like a gear lever handle.
Posted: 30 Jan 2007, 23:19
by VEGAS
Jetset wrote:Apart from Scarebus, where the flap lever is like a gear lever handle.
Or anything Russian where your lucky to have handles in the first place, usually its a piece of old parrot perch cellotaped to whats left of the handle.
Posted: 30 Jan 2007, 23:23
by Jetset
VEGAS wrote:Jetset wrote:Apart from Scarebus, where the flap lever is like a gear lever handle.
Or anything Russian where your lucky to have handles in the first place, usually its a piece of old parrot perch cellotaped to whats left of the handle.
.......and if your lucky part of the parrot to.
