spring tension...?
Howdy folks,
while struggling one night to get all the stuff inside a much too narrow pylon racer fuselage my overheated brain :bananahea came up with the idea to use spring tension halfway out on the aileron to "crank it up" to about neutral instead of mass balancing at the inner(or outer) end. Would that work at all...??
As you all know mass balancing is not that easy due to space limitations, drag, hinge stiffness and torsional bending when attaching the counterweight only at one end.
Please feel free to laugh at the idea (I´m a chemist anyway) but I could not resist the temptation to ask........Cheers/Harald
PS: Rudeboy, why should the aileron NOT be fully balanced, only partly..?
Bill R., long time no hear - I´m still around..DS