EARLY POWERED FLIGHT CONTROLS
Your article "From Kites to Pegasus" (AW&ST Dec. 15, 2003, p. 56) brings up the issue of powered flight controls. Boeing's S-307 Stratoliner was the first operational airplane (Pan American service began on July 4, 1940) to use hydraulically boosted flight controls, elevators and rudder, with manual...
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