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Old 26th April 2017, 21:32
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Re: Yet another for our Russian experts, please!

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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
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)
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