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Old 01-11-2015, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by radfordc
You seem to be saying that dual servos only work if they're mounted at the tail? Mount your servos at the front of the plane and run the pull/pull cables back to the tail. One servo driving the left elevator and the other driving the right.
You're right that I hadn't thought of mounting dual elevators up front (with dual cable systems). That could, indeed, be a handy solution on some WWI models, for example, on types that had an external control horn in the front, like the DH1a.