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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Can the backseater in f-18's bring it home?
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Date: 19 Apr 91 16:51:14 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)


>From: <PAISLEY%auvm.auvm.edu@VM1.gatech.edu>
>the backseater can't 'drive' the plane anyway--he doesn't have the controls
>to do so.

Depends on the aircraft, and indeed the exact model of aircraft.  If I
recall correctly, one of the minor changes made to the Phantom when the
USAF adopted it was flight controls for the backseater.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry