Originally Posted by
MAVROS
Harry C,
Mate if you care to google control reversal at high speed compressible air flow you may understand that it is real.
Yes transonic and supersonic flight is possible nowdays because engineers have proved the phenomenon and designed wing structures acordingly
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Mavros
Ailerons do not reverse their effect, not does any control. Early structures had problems with the wing twisting in the opposite direction to the aileron but it is true at
any speed if the wing is not stiff enough, it is not exclusive to supersonic flight. It is a phenomenon of a weak structure, not some magical reversal of the aileron's aerodynamic effect.
Originally Posted by
MAVROS
Ailerons act the same way .... unless you induce supersonic airflow
What that says is that ailerons, ALL ailerons, reverse their effect when supersonic and that just isn't true.