ORIGINAL: invertmast
A geebee R2 used torque rods on its ailerons (yes the full-scale). Torque rods are used used on the elevators and rudders on kingairs and other full scale aircraft.
If they are designed and installed correctly, they are as good if not better than most other control setups (but there are cons to them as well)
Yes, as I stated in an earlier post; torque tubes are used often in control systems of full scale aircraft however they are not generally used in the same fashion as our smaller R/C aileron counterparts. I was an assistant crew chief on the F104 and a crew chief on the F18 Hornet some 25-26 years ago and the control systems in these jets utilizes many torque tubes, some to bell cranks and other from actuators to the control surfaces, so this is certainly no front page news. Anyway if you want to use torque rods, by all means use them.
Bob