Let me tell ALL of you what is REALLY funny.

Let's take model cessna and look at it......Pilot wants to make a scale looking approach/landing. Wing only has AILERONS. Need to slow the thing way down but can't without creating more lift. .......need flaps right!! So you use the radio and program FLAPERONS

Now let's look at my favorite, a 40% EDGE......Pilot wants to do an awesome harrier from way high or maybe a radical snap into a wall or maybe even really ugly waterfalls. Really need that thing to be stable.......need flaps right!!! So you use the radio and program FLAPERONS/SPOILERONS


Somehow this has become a debate of who's right or wrong about flaperons, the 3D guys or the funfly guys or the scale guys..........FACT of the matter is, to some degree you are all right. Do you think that the CESSNA gives a hoot about doing harriers?....DOUBT it.....he just wants to slow down and stay in the air. The cessna will use throttle and some elevator to control pitch, but the elevator MAY OR MAY NOT move opposite the flaps.

You are all correct. As with ANYTHING REAL, it evolves. It doesn't matter what this word was when it came about, it only matters what it is NOW.....Don't you remember when the word AIN'T wasn't a word and couldn't be font in ANY dictionary? Well it is there now.