Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:50:59 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from mta2.wss.scd.yahoo.com ([66.218.85.33] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 2784171 for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:29:53 -0500 Received: from paul (206.169.219.158) by mta2.wss.scd.yahoo.com (7.0.016) (authenticated as naf@britevalley.com) id 3FBAA50F008A2E6F for lml@lancaironline.net; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:29:52 -0800 From: "Paul Nafziger" X-Original-To: "'Lancair Mailing List'" Subject: RE: [LML] Re: vg's X-Original-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:29:28 -0800 X-Original-Message-ID: <005301c3bae0$01f6ad90$4f00a8c0@paul> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: The Citation rudder control system is fully reversible, right? If my = test pilot school learning isn't entirely forgotten, I think that trick was = used to improve the control feel rather than increase the control power. = Perhaps someone else remembers better. If not, I can dig out the old text = books. Re: blunt ailerons. Apparently the ailerons needed more control power = and the other controls didn't. Could have gotten the same result by = lengthening the aileron chord. I recently lost an experimental subscale target = because we forgot that simple trick. Replaced the "ugly" blunt elevators with = nice "pretty" faired ones. Didn't like high-Q at all! Naf Paul Nafziger LNC2 N7PN >I walked=20 > around a Citation the other day and noticed that the rudder=20 > has a T-shaped aluminum extrusion riveted to the trailing=20 > edge of the rudder - looked like a "fix" to get more rudder=20 > sensitivity by simulating a wider trailing edge, compensating=20 > for boundary layer thickness, just like our ailerons. =20