Putting the rudder on a V-mount works fine, except striking the rudder on the ground may cause it to break. I suppose you could have the V-mounted rudder mostly above the boom, which would minimize the torques on the V-mount from a ground strike. But rudder airloads will torque the boom more.
My thought was that the rudder strikes on landing would most likely be from straight ahead. If the rudder was attached with a single bolt then it should pivot around that bolt, and not transmit much load to anything?
The Flight loads wanting to rotate the rudder fore and aft in the vertical plane
should be almost zero if the mount is in the rudder center???
I realize that the rotating prop puts some diferential airflow into the equation....
but I wouldn;t think it was that much????
Am I missing something?
I'm currently living in The Peoples Republic of California, so it's got to go on the Left side ;-)Then there's the agony of deciding whether to put the rudder on the right side or the left side of the boom...
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