ORIGINAL: H5487
Rodney,
What is ''positive Ackerman'' and can you give me a link to the atricle that you mentioned?
Many thanks,
Harvey
It's on your automobile. When you turn your steering wheel, your front tire on the inside of the turn angles more into the turn than your front outside tire angles. It's a good thing on automobiles.
How is is done? The same way it screws up pull-pull systems on airplanes.
BTW, all WWI airplanes had pull-pull on all their surfaces. Wires going everywhere. And they were so troublesome that almost every airplane had at least one rigger who did almost nothing but adjust those wires.
You know the rule that your pushrod should make a right angle from it's connect point to the hinge line. Well, that's so that pushrod doesn't wind up with Ackerman. I did a Google and got a number of hits on Ackerman. Bottom line is you need to have the connect points on your servo tiller equally as wide as the connect points on your surface's tiller, and the points on the tiller in line with the hinge line. Or the non-pulling line will either go slack or tighten up.
Pushrods and horns are so troublefree it's a wonder pull-pull is popular at all.