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
> around a Citation the other day and noticed that the rudder
> has a T-shaped aluminum extrusion riveted to the trailing
> edge of the rudder - looked like a "fix" to get more rudder
> sensitivity by simulating a wider trailing edge, compensating
> for boundary layer thickness, just like our ailerons.