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Originally Posted by Brian
Hi guys
Further to Nikolai Gubin's heroics in saving his aircraft and landing it relatively safely, how would this have been accomplished from the rear seat of a tandem-seated aircraft with a dead pilot strapped into the cockpit? How would he have manipulated the controls, especially for landing?
Cheers
Brian
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Hi Brian,
Quote from comrade: "R-5 used double system: both pilot and observer could control plane.
Nikolay D. Gubin - test pilot 1-st rank, colonel"
http://testpilot.ru/base/2016/11/gubin-n-d/
Regards,
Kirill (and Sergey)