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Old 09-27-2009 | 10:00 AM
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That's very interesting and a great exercise in motion geometry. And it certainly is great food for thought. But, ultimately, those solutions allow for mechanical mixing in the days before computer mixing was possible. In the case of this "thought experiment" the elevator and aileron controls need to stay completely separate.

Of course, the problem here was that the original solved this problem by adding a human arm to the top of the stick!