Just as aside, my Avid Mk4 has push pull control tubes for elevator and
ailerons including a complex aileron "mixer" that allows the flaperons to
operate as flaps and ailerons at the same time, and to fold the wings back
without disconnecting anything. (Although at low speeds the system can
delive
Oh, and I forgot push-pull-cables. They can be bad news, and heavy is
the least of it. The more curves there in the housings, the more slop
you'll have as they take up the space between cable and housing, and the
friction is much higher than a pulley system. There's a very good
reason why th
Tony King wrote:
> But I'm pretty sure using push-pull cables with no
> bellcranks would eliminate any differential action of the ailerons.
> It might be possible to get some of that back by doing something like
> what Mark Langford did with his ailerons (where the front edge sticks
> up into t
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