Yaw String
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Yaw String
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#2This is one of multiple instruments that, according to the author of See How It Flies[1] indicate important readings to the pilot, but don't exist at all in a default airplane.
A couple of other examples are an adjustable indication on the windscreen of where "straight in front of you" is, as well as an angle of attack indicator.
Angle of attack, pitch angle, and yaw commonly don't have their own indicators, as important as they are. Instead, pilots have to infer them by combining readings from multiple other sources.
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#3This is one of multiple instruments that, according to the author of See How It Flies[1] indicate important readings to the pilot, but don't exist at all in a default airplane. A couple of other examples are an adjustable indication on the windscreen of where "straight in front of you" is, as well as an angle of attack indicator. Angle of attack, pitch angle, and yaw commonly don't have their own indicators, as impor…
Fortunately, on gliders where specific knowledge of airflow over your plane is very important, yaw string become pretty much standard equipment, traditionally applied with electric tape.
Though imagine rewatching after years scenes from The Final Countdown, and noticing that the F-14 have your well known yaw strings installed in very familiar way (and finding out later that it was unauthorized, but very common, modification known to increase accuracy heavily).
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#4Reminds me of tell-tales on sailboats which are similar bits of string attached to sails which give feedback about how you might need to adjust your sails to keep the wind moving over them smoothly.
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#5Not criticising but what is behind the (feels like extreme) over-representation of aeroplane, aeronautic, airline industry in the HN topic rotation?
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#6Not criticising but what is behind the (feels like extreme) over-representation of aeroplane, aeronautic, airline industry in the HN topic rotation?
My guess is that airplanes are cool/fascinating for a lot of people. Aerospace is a field where a lot of things are unknown to most of the population, which triggers curiosity even for the smallest details.
I have done IT consulting in the field, and have been genuinely happy to get a tour of some facilities and debugging software while sitting in a life-size simulator. It really tickles your engineering senses.
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#7Not criticising but what is behind the (feels like extreme) over-representation of aeroplane, aeronautic, airline industry in the HN topic rotation?
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#8This is one of multiple instruments that, according to the author of See How It Flies[1] indicate important readings to the pilot, but don't exist at all in a default airplane. A couple of other examples are an adjustable indication on the windscreen of where "straight in front of you" is, as well as an angle of attack indicator. Angle of attack, pitch angle, and yaw commonly don't have their own indicators, as impor…
Aircraft are kind of silly in many ways.
The default speedometer doesn't actually tell you how fast you're going, and the default altimeter doesn't actually tell you how high you are.
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#9This is one of multiple instruments that, according to the author of See How It Flies[1] indicate important readings to the pilot, but don't exist at all in a default airplane. A couple of other examples are an adjustable indication on the windscreen of where "straight in front of you" is, as well as an angle of attack indicator. Angle of attack, pitch angle, and yaw commonly don't have their own indicators, as impor…
Aircraft are kind of silly in many ways. The default speedometer doesn't actually tell you how fast you're going, and the default altimeter doesn't actually tell you how high you are.
Alas, this is typical of these head-in-the-clouds engineering types.
More concerned with the technical details about keeping their precious machinery working than anything practical like am I going to get to Malaga in time for dinner.
joke
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#10Reminds me of tell-tales on sailboats which are similar bits of string attached to sails which give feedback about how you might need to adjust your sails to keep the wind moving over them smoothly.
The purpose is slightly different though: on sails their goal is to detect turbulence and stalls.