Fighter flight controls

[hip3rion]

Hello everyone,

 

 

I have 2 questions for the knowledgeable people on this forums.

 

 

1. What was the last fighter aircraft to be designed with pure mechanical flight controls (rods/pulley etc) ?

 

 

2. Same question but with hydraulic help involved to move the control surfaces ?

 

 

Let's take the year of first flight to sort them out.

 

 

If you have any source to back up your answer, that'd be greatly appreciated !

 

 

Thank you all :thumbup:

[Drotik]

Probably the Gloster Meteor (?) and the good old 262 where the last fighters purely without powered controls. Even the T-33 was equipped with a simple hydraulic system. And until today the (almost) incompressibility of fluids moves the controls of any larger aircraft.

[AeriaGloria]

Experience it with added transonic effect by flying MiG-15