Wing Rebuilding
07-25-2002, 09:15 AM
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Wing Rebuilding
You can add ailerons to anything....
Plan ahead if you want to do it with this wing later. Before building the wing at all, stack and drill the ribs for the servo wires. (mini/micro servos out in the wings.) use a Forstner bit just larger than the servo wire connector on an aileron extension. Place the hle appx 1/2 inch behind the main spar. When assembing the wings, insert rolled typing paper tubes in the driled holes to act as servo wire guides, and it will be easy to get the wires through.
With high dihedral, the ailerons will cause a TON of adverse yaw if they don't have serious differential throw. With the servo and control horn on the bottom, have the servo neutral position 45 deg forward of the servo arm parallel to the main spar. This will give more than 2X upward deflection vs downward. 60 deg forward... the downward aileron may start moving up at full throw. Its OK to do that.
Plan ahead if you want to do it with this wing later. Before building the wing at all, stack and drill the ribs for the servo wires. (mini/micro servos out in the wings.) use a Forstner bit just larger than the servo wire connector on an aileron extension. Place the hle appx 1/2 inch behind the main spar. When assembing the wings, insert rolled typing paper tubes in the driled holes to act as servo wire guides, and it will be easy to get the wires through.
With high dihedral, the ailerons will cause a TON of adverse yaw if they don't have serious differential throw. With the servo and control horn on the bottom, have the servo neutral position 45 deg forward of the servo arm parallel to the main spar. This will give more than 2X upward deflection vs downward. 60 deg forward... the downward aileron may start moving up at full throw. Its OK to do that.
