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- Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!bcsystems!sringrose
- From: sringrose@galaxy.gov.bc.ca
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: Aileron/Elevator mixers?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.141803.1237@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 14:18:03 -0800
- References: <1992Nov12.143318.1211@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> <1992Nov13.164602.5291@informix.com>
- Organization: BC Systems Corporation
- Lines: 22
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- In article <1992Nov13.164602.5291@informix.com>, robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov12.143318.1211@galaxy.gov.bc.ca> sringrose@galaxy.gov.bc.ca
- > writes:
- >
- >> Rob, I have to ask - why would you mix aileron/elevator?
- >
- > I'm a novice at this stuff, but there are all kinds of mixing out there. Some
- > planes, like Klingberg wings, have no elevators (no tail at all). Even fairly
- > conventional planes are sometimes configured without an elevator on the tail.
- > Instead, the elevator function is incorporated into the ailerons. These "elevons"
- > (elevator-ailerons) are structurally the same as ordinary ailerons, but move in two
- > different modes - they move in opposite directions, like standard ailerons, to roll
- > the plane, but also work together, moving in the same direction, to change the
- > pitch. This is accomplished either electronically or mechanically.
- >
- > The pilot just uses his stick in the usual way, but either the radio or the plane
- > "mixes" the axes of the stick so that the pilot's operations get translated
- > properly into the two modes of motion in the elevons.
- >
- >
- >
- > Rob
-