However, there are aircraft designed to operate without ... These adjustable surfaces can provide pitch, roll and yaw, and work with a sophisticated fly-by-wire system. While the pilot remains ...

Ships had had rudders for millennia, and a rudder could be used to control the airplane in the yaw axis—nose right ... be used to control the airplane in pitch—nose up, nose down—didn ...

They approached the issue methodically, working out ways to control a glider's tendency to pitch up and down, roll side to side, or yaw left and ... make a self-powered airplane, they needed ...