Maybe, but which is the more important surface?  I'm basing this on advice
given to me when I was working on my 3m, full flying stab ship.  Most
people on the list recommended a fairly torquey servo for the elevator.

At 01:00 AM 5/1/01 -0400, Mark Drela wrote:
>
>>The ability to share the elevator servo load between two lessor torque
>>servos, rather then having one giant servo of the elevator and a smaller
>>one for the rudder. 
>
>You got that backwards.  A full flying elevator hinged at its mean
>quarter-chord puts negligible airloads on its servo.   The rudder
>servo will see larger airloads.
>
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