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Old 01-24-2004, 10:12 PM
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Default RE: Rudder offset or not?

Right, no rudder is better than a straight rudder that fights the yaw that the leadouts are trying to introduce. But if you've got a scale ship with a rudder, wouldn't you want a bit of offset to keep the rudder from trying to straighten out the yaw? You could brute-force it with more leadout trail than really necessary, but that seems like an inelegant solution and would cause more drag as the two fight each other. I wonder if anyone has tried a floating rudder with just enough friction on the pivot to tell us where the rudder wants to be. Don