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Old 03-29-2002 | 01:52 PM
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Default Static Electricity

Has there been anything written, discussed, etc. concerning the effects of static electricity on r/c aircraft in flight? I can't help but wonder if some of the twitches we see in our planes are due not to a faulty TX or RX but rather, to S.E. Let's take as an example a plane where a servo or two are exposed to the slipstream; would the friction of air against its surfaces...or along the great expanse of skin, cause a static charge build-up which would result in a servo twitch. How about S.E. being carried out to the RX antenna, the end of which is dangling out there in the stream...like the little rope-like devices we see on full scale a/c wings to shed static charges? Whatta you guys think?