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Regarding the subject line:

Back (way back) when I built my 235 (hull no. 52), the same question arose.
According to the factory at the time, this feature was to eliminate any
dead-band in the rudder response around neutral. I built mine exactly this
way and it certainly works - there is zero rudder displacement dead-band.
That said, I must confess that having never flown a Lancair with a perfectly
faired stab-rudder interface, I have no way to know if there is, in fact, a
rudder dead-band problem.

My rudder is about 3/16ths wider than the stab trailing edge (slightly less,
progressively, toward the top) evenly spaced on each side.

Dan Schaefer

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