X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:00:53 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from imo-d21.mx.aol.com ([205.188.144.207] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0c3) with ESMTP id 741016 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:37:15 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=205.188.144.207; envelope-from=Sky2high@aol.com Received: from Sky2high@aol.com by imo-d21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r5.5.) id q.1c9.31df79a6 (2519) for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:36:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Sky2high@aol.com X-Original-Message-ID: <1c9.31df79a6.306c74e7@aol.com> X-Original-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:36:23 EDT Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Rudder Balancing X-Original-To: lml@lancaironline.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1127946983" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5009 X-Spam-Flag: NO -------------------------------1127946983 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 9/28/2005 11:46:54 A.M. Central Standard Time, MikeEasley@aol.com writes: Some 20-20 hindsight. Build your rudder as light as possible. Don't get sloppy with flox, layups, wiring, etc. because it will be magnified when you work with the limited room in the rudder counterbalance arm. Probably the easiest place to save weight is in the trim tab construction, build the tab light! Mike, Some have built both rudder and elevator horns (but especially rudder) longer than the molds provide for. This allows for full balancing without using so much weight since the arm is longer. Some of us (very few) flying itsy-bitsy Lancairs refuse to use trim tabs, whether they are built into the control surface or in trail, thus saving counter weighting such devices so far aft of the hinge line. Spring trim systems (some servo driven) can provide adequate control. Even Cirrus uses spring-cartridge servo-controlled trim systems (at least for the ailerons). Just a consideration....... Scott Krueger AKA Grayhawk Lancair N92EX IO320 SB 89/96 Aurora, IL (KARR) -------------------------------1127946983 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

In a message dated 9/28/2005 11:46:54 A.M. Central Standard Time,=20 MikeEasley@aol.com writes:

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Some 20-20 hindsight. Build your rudder as light as possible.&n= bsp;=20 Don't get sloppy with flox, layups, wiring, etc. because it will be magnif= ied=20 when you work with the limited room in the rudder counterbalance arm. = ;=20 Probably the easiest place to save weight is in the trim tab construction,= =20 build the tab light!

Mike,

Some have built both rudder and elevator horns (but especially rudder)=20 longer than the molds provide for. This allows for full balancing with= out=20 using so much weight since the arm is longer.

Some of us (very few) flying itsy-bitsy Lancairs refuse to use tr= im=20 tabs, whether they are built into the control surface or in trail, thus savi= ng=20 counter weighting such devices so far aft of the hinge line. Spring tr= im=20 systems (some servo driven) can provide adequate control.

Even Cirrus uses spring-cartridge servo-controlled trim systems (at lea= st=20 for the ailerons).

Just a consideration.......=20

Scott Krueger=20 AKA Grayhawk
Lancair N92EX IO320 SB 89/96
Aurora, IL=20 (KARR)

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