I reallly like that design... it's elegant! It will be heavier as the moment arm is shorter... but it is elegant.
In my case... I ended up making my ailerons so heavy, that if I re-did them and used your design, it would still be lighter than my current ailerons...(possible summer project). -- Ross On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:19:29 -0500, Dean Cooper <dean_coo...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Ross wrote: > >> Also... from preflighting lots of C-152's you can see that Cessna uses > small spanwise triangular weights just FWD of the hinge line. This is > much > more attractive than our giant lead arm... but weighs more. > > > Ross, Netters: > > Along the same lines and stealing from Tony's books, I was thinking about > this design: > http://www.geocities.com/djramccoop1/Aileron_Balance.html > > But, didn't know how much extra weight it would require or what the > offset > in less drag would be (in addition to the reduced risk of falling off > :-) > > Any thoughts on this design? > > Dean Cooper > Jacksonville, FL > Email me at dean_coo...@bellsouth.net > See my KR project at www.geocities.com/djramccoop1/KR2_Home.html > > > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
