On the errand · Scope, watch, take back or end the errand. · it acts
Element 96
Take the task back and do it yourself.
take control · disengage
The other half of the exchange is Hand Back.
First known
Opened
1908Wright brothers' automatic stabilizer: the aviator's handle makes or breaks the link to the automatic mechanism, so the rudder can be worked by hand. Patent filed 1908.
See also: Sperry aeroplane stabilizer, patent filed July 1914: the automatic system 'may be cut in or out at will', leaving the aviator the hand levers.
“the drum 22 can be actuated to adjust the rudder 16 by hand, or the same may be positively connected to the automatically actuated mechanism ... means for making and breaking the connection between the automatic mechanism and the balancing mechanism”
Taking the controls back is as old as automatic flight. Sperry's 1914 stabilizer patent says the automatic system 'may be cut in or out at will'.
Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.
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Specimen № 96 — operate freely
Grab the yoke mid-flight (hold ← or →, or drag). Give it back with E, then take it again.
Fig. 96 — Take Over
000 readings · idle
On the errand: its twin
The two series line up in pairs. Each act on a guess sits above the act that does the same thing to an errand, so Override and Take Over are one move made on two kinds of thing.
Bodies
The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Take Over takes.
- take control
- disengage