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Originally Posted by Polar742  Kind nice since it only cruised at one speed, you never had to use the manual trim. |
Around here somewhere amid all the manuals, my YS-11 manual is hiding. For a while I caught a virus and collected flight manuals. There are a number of sites now where you can get copies or actual flight manuals and they make for interesting reading about the evolution of systems and standardized cockpits. It is incredible at times to look at what our forefathers had to work with.
As for the YS-11, it was similar to many European machines in that there was a relatively large manual elevator trim wheel that was more useful for trimming than the electric trim. I use the manual trim in the Citation more often than the electric for fine tuning. The BAC-111 and I believe the F-28 had similar elevator trim wheels. Didn't fly either on the line but did get some time in the F-70, the shortened version of the F-100. Nice little machine for what it was designed to do.