Forum: F-16 Design & Construction

I just saw on the home page the little excerpt about the YF-16.
It said that it was able to roll without banking, so assuming this
followed into the current day vipers, does that mean that one
could roll the airplane without changing the heading or gaining/losing sky?

thanks Smile

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Elite 1K Joined: May 26, 2005 - 08:39 PM Posts: 1496

What exactly are you talking about? "Roll without banking"? The definition of a roll is "to bank". Can you link the article you're referring to?

yeah sec if i can find it :s

Lol wow, my bad, I read it wrong, it says 'turn without having to bank' I thought it said roll. Its just whenever I played Tom Clancy's HAWX you could roll the aircraft without losing or gaining altitude, and I thought since it was a video game, that it wasn't really like that in real life. So when I saw this I got a little excited Razz

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The first YF-16 (#72-1567) was rebuilt in December 1975 to become the USAF Flight Dynamics Laboratory's Control Configured Vehicle (CCV). CCV aircraft have independent or "decoupled" flight control surfaces, which make it possible to maneuver in one plane without movement in another -- for example, turning without having to bank.

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same thing with the F-22 where the elevators can move in different directions. You should also take a look at the F-16 tests of MAVT (Multi Axis Thrust Vectoring). This is where the nozzle on the engine can rotate 360 degrees at an angle of 15 degrees. This means the airplane can actually do a flat spin the vertical axis while maintaining the same heading, ridiculous. On a lighter note, it is also capable of strafeing to the side while maintaining direction of the nose and without the use of yaw. Cool stuff.

Youtube "F-16 MATV"

leumas wrote:

Quote:

The first YF-16 (#72-1567) was rebuilt in December 1975 to become the USAF Flight Dynamics Laboratory's Control Configured Vehicle (CCV). CCV aircraft have independent or "decoupled" flight control surfaces, which make it possible to maneuver in one plane without movement in another -- for example, turning without having to bank.

http://www.f-16.net/f-16_versions_article15.html

The AFTI F-16 is where they really started playing with that stuff.