Information about Yoke (aircraft)
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The control yoke of a Boeing 737 aircraft.
The aviator uses the yoke to control the attitude of the plane, usually in both pitch and roll. Rotating the wheel on the yoke rolls the aircraft and pulling or pushing the yoke pitches the aircraft in a natural sense. There are also computer input devices designed to simulate a yoke, intended for flight simulators. Yokes in most larger aircraft are linked to stick shakers which are designed to help indicate and recover from stalling conditions.
The control stick found on modern fighter aircraft is not the same as a yoke. The control stick is a roughly vertical rod that is pushed forward and aft for pitch control of the aircraft and left and right for roll control.
The equivalent control in a helicopter is the cyclic.
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Collection of control yokes at Boeing Future of Flight Museum 747, Dash-80, B-29, trimotor
fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air craft where movement of the wings in relation to the aircraft is not used to generate lift. The term is used to distinguish from rotary-wing aircraft, or ornithopters, where the movement of the wing surfaces relative to the aircraft
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steering wheel (SW) (also called a driving wheel or hand wheel) is a type of steering control in vehicles and vessels (ships and boats). This article deals with SW's in vehicles; see steering wheel (ship) for the use in vessels.
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Aviator (common usage term: pilot, regulatory usage term: airman) is a person qualified in the operation of aircraft, whether for pleasure or as a profession.
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Aircraft attitude is used to mean two closely related aspects of the situation of an aircraft in flight.
In the simplest use it is the orientation of an aircraft with respect to the horizon. This is a function of two angles: pitch and roll.
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In the simplest use it is the orientation of an aircraft with respect to the horizon. This is a function of two angles: pitch and roll.
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The word roll has these meanings:
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- A thin flexible solid wound around a centre
- Something wrapped around a tube, e.g. toilet roll.
- Paper strips wrapped around a thin quilling tool, e.g.
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computer is a machine which manipulates data according to a list of instructions.
Computers take numerous physical forms. The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century (around 1940 - 1941), although the computer concept and various machines
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Computers take numerous physical forms. The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century (around 1940 - 1941), although the computer concept and various machines
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An input device is a hardware mechanism that transforms information in the external world for consumption by a computer. Often, input devices are under direct control by a human user, who uses them to communicate commands or other information to be processed by the computer, which
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flight simulator is a system that tries to replicate, or simulate, the experience of flying an aircraft as closely and realistically as possible. The different types of flight simulator range from video games up to full-size cockpit replicas mounted on hydraulic (or
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- For other uses, see stall.
In aerodynamics, a stall is a sudden reduction in the lift forces generated by an airfoil. This most usually occurs when the critical angle of attack for the airfoil is exceeded.
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helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors, each rotor consisting of two or more rotor blades. Helicopters are classified as rotorcraft or rotary-wing aircraft to distinguish them from fixed-wing aircraft because the helicopter derives
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flight controls of a helicopter in order to achieve controlled aerodynamic flight. The changes made to the flight controls are transmitted mechanically to the rotor but have aerodynamic effects on the helicopter's rotor blades allowing the helicopter to be controlled.
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