RE: Flaperons?
Let me pipe up and calm the waters a bit .... but firstly let say that I understand Flaperons to mean the mixing of aileronds to behave like flaps....
So, this is how it goes ....
You have a V tail plane, so you mix rudder input to behave like elevator = Ruddervator.
You have a delta-wing, so you make your elevator behave like ailerons = Elevons.
You don't have seperate flaps, so you mix your ailerons to behave like flaps = Flaperons.
You don't have seperate spoilers, so you mix your ailerons to behave like spoilers = Spoilerons.
There is a systematic, logical, and consistent naming convention.
If you want to mix additional functionality with a pre-existing mix:
Flaperons + elevator = Flaperonevator.
If you have seperate flaps from the ailerons, and you mix in elevator = Flapervator
The name of the mix should refer to all controls mixed in to the pot. If not, it should be a composite like Flapersons with elevator.
Now, Combatpigg, as you using the name Flaperons for the tri-mix of Ailerons as flaps and Elevator, use it all you like .... but be warned that you will have limited success when talking to people about the wonders of your flying. If you can not expess yourself clearly in a manner that your conversant understands then you are liable to have numerous arduous conversations.
Finally, Combatpigg, if Flaperons are a mix of the flap behaviour of Ailerons with Elevators, what do you call it if there are no elevators in the mix?
gus
P.S. One final element in my Circumstantial defense.... The 3D community is the "ground breaking", leading edge, pioneering community in the RC Universe (or that is at least what they keep telling us). Why is it that in an environment full of cascading, blending, waterfalling, harrier, hovering, and tail-touching pioneers that they would take a dusty old term like Flaperons that has been around for longer than glow engines, and use it incorrectly. If The elevator mix was so special, surely the 3D folk could have invented a new, dynamic, and special name like Altervators, Enervaterons, or Dual-controlerons. Hell, what about torquerons? Even Superons. It is obvious that the intent is not to use the flap effect in a conventional manner, but in a 3D manner, so why not even Splaterons?
P.P.S Torquerons is now MY word, and I will use it to name the combination of ailerons and Elevator where the elevators halves are mixed with the corresponding ailerons so that a right aileron roll is coupled with a right elevator roll.... I know that used to be called ailevators, but ailevators is such a 2D term I want to rename it completely!
gus