Manoeuvre Demand Control - Trials with the AVRO 707C

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[@Anmeteor9663]

Jolly clever those chaps at Avro and RAE.

[@tesserakt54]

Rather!

[@flybobbie1449]

Interesting with the jet age how margines of control reduced and electronics could protect the pilot.

[@ConradAinger]

Chaps with the right sort of moustache. Probably smoked a pipe. Went to a decent school.

[@Anmeteor9663]

@@ConradAinger Members of the Oxford University Aero Club and a Rowing Blue obviously.

[@ConradAinger]

@@Anmeteor9663 Spot on.

[@ronlynquist9183]

Early fly by wire.

[@lardyify]

The reason it worked so well was that it, like the later Concorde, was all analogue.

[@reltney20]

In the 50s the US had FBY in the F-107, X-15 and A5 vigilante.

[@kevinwilliams287]

Classic British aerospace at its best! Pitty the British Govt cut it all away! who knows what the Brits could have achieved!!

[@marcbiff2192]

We give everything away,for some damned reason.

[@kevinwilliams287]

@@marcbiff2192 My conspiracy theory is that UK aerospace at the time was leading US in developement and innovation. I feel there was some "influence" from them. It seems the UK Govt at the time seems just reduced and closed the industry overnight. Pitty

[@K2edg]

O i like that!! very limited colour footage of it flying and the video looking at the control surfaces puts to bed questions we had over a pod on the front egde of the tail. Good find!!

[@ianlomaxphotography6978]

The aircraft is now preserved at the Avro Heritage Museum, Woodford.

[@flybobbie1449]

I flew over Woodford some years ago. I told controller in atc we needed to fly over and take pictures of the airfield. He asked why. I think i let cat out of the bag when i said, it's up for sale....

[@raypurchase801]

There's an episode of the 1960s TV series "The Saint" in which a Hawker Kestrel (Harrier) is stolen. One scene was filmed on the wing of this Avro because the Kestrel wasn't available.

[@johnmorris7815]

So basically fly by wire before we had a name for it.

[@longdarkrideatnight]

Yes, I love how the early attempts at naming things are so often right and so often wrong. A really good example of this is the Mother of All Demos kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3unp2Cwmc2tg7s

[@mizake01]

Vaccum tube/valve and mechanical computers? So far advanced, thus the future doctrine of removing the pilot. Cool stuff.

[@amcds2867]

Early fly by wire.