Hartmut wrote: > Aileron flutter as Ed and I experienced it happens > on one surface only. Here we have BOTH ailerons > fluttering. And they flutter that much that a witness > from 1200ft below can see them moving. That means > this was not the flutter due to looseness in the > controls hardware. This was a flutter of completely > loose ailerons. If the connection rod from the steering > mast to the aileron/rudder mix quadrant broke off in > flight AND the plane had rudder pedals, the aileron > would be free to move through the whole range of > possible deflection. THAT could be visible from > 1200 ft below.
I would think that regular flutter could break the control linkages and allow the ailerons to flap freely in high amplitude flutter. Ed
