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== Aviation == [[Image:Glidercockpit.JPG|right|thumb|Cockpit of a glider with its joystick visible]] Joysticks originated as controls for aircraft [[aileron]]s and [[elevator (aeronautics)|elevator]]s, and are first known to have been used as such on [[Louis Bleriot]]'s [[Bleriot VIII]] aircraft of 1908, in combination with a foot-operated rudder bar for the yaw control surface on the tail.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090725/world/english-channel-armada-to-mark-centenary-of-louis-bleriot-flight.266688|title=English Channel Armada to Mark Centenary of Louis Blériot Flight|author=AFP|newspaper=[[Times of Malta]]|date=25 July 2009|access-date=14 September 2015}}</ref>
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