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- Path: sparky!uunet!oracle!pyramid!infmx!news
- From: robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg)
- Newsgroups: rec.models.rc
- Subject: Re: Aileron/Elevator mixers?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.164602.5291@informix.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 16:46:02 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.143318.1211@galaxy.gov.bc.ca>
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- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
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- 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.
-
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-
- Rob
-