Radio commands translated into movement through pneumatic servos attached to the Queen Bee's flight controls. A ram-air turbine mounted beside the fuselage supplied the compressed air, giving the control system its own onboard power source. The exposed turbine and pneumatic arrangement could be vulnerable in a combat aircraft, but this machine was built primarily as a training target. Retaining a normal forward cockpit let a pilot make ferry flights without requiring a second aircraft to guide every transfer.
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How radio commands moved the Queen Bee's controls
Onboard pneumatic servos translated radio commands into control movement, while a normal cockpit remained available for ferry flights.