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"Some LNC2 have been know to have a buz at the ailerons. And
yes, this is NOT flutter coz flutter would have ripped your ailerons
off your wings and you would have been unable to fix this problem..."
I have to disagree with you on this one, Rick.
The "buzzing" is indeed flutter, only is the amplitude of the flutter
limited by a counterweight installed at the end of a spring, consisting
of a curved piece of fibreglass.
If, over time, the spring weakens (delaminates), the flutter amplitude
changes to the worse, inducing yet stronger forces to the spring, which
in turn accelerates further delamination. Once the delamination has
progressed to a certain extent, you are going to have a bad day, as the
buzzing (slow-destructive flutter) will evolve into a full and
immediately catastrophic flutter. It´s the nature of the beast.
In reality, the only thing seperating these two "kinds" of flutter is
the strength of your wing skins, ailerons, bonds and hardware.
You may name it as you please, call it "non-destructive flutter",
"slow-destructive flutter", "rapid aileron movement", "funny humming"
or even "buzzing", but flutter it is.
Anyway, it doesn´t take much imagination to see what would happen if an
unbalanced aileron started to "buzz"............
So: "Buzzing" is to be taken seriously
and the solution seems to be a couple of prime ribs slapped into the
spring. I believe there is about a zillion posts and pics on the topic
in the archives.
Regards
Tim Jorgensen
360MKIIOBFB / 65%
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