Hey Guy's; Since the subject has come up I would like to mention something that I saw many years ago. A fellow by the name of Jack Sheeks who owned a hobby shop in Indpls, Ind. and wrote many an article for model airplane magazines also flew quarter midget racers. His planes only used one aileron, it was on the right side. I asked him why and he said it was because he only made left hand turns. Now before you start laughing here's why. He said that making sharp left (or right) hand turns always made the plane dive in a turn, but with an aileron on only the high side wing, it would rise slightly instead of diving and was easier to handle and had less drag. Left hand turns were still possible if needed by using rudder.
Now, I said all of this because the KR ailerons (rightly) have 20 degree up travel and 10 degree down travel which I would think would cause the plane to dive (slightly) into the lowering wing. But would the oppisite happen if the lowering aileron had 10 degree up travel and the rising aileron had 20 degree down travel. That seems like a good exercise to try in X-Plane with the KR model just to find out. Dan F. Indpls, Ind. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverly & Colin Rainey" <beverlyrai...@bellsouth.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 11:47 AM Subject: KR> Aileron travel I hate to contradict you Brian, but more travel does not necessarily increase sensitivity, but WILL make for a better roll rate when fully deflected. The sensitivity will be dependent on how much deflection occurs compared to a given amount of stick travel, as compared to an original setup. If the original KR2 gets 5 degrees of deflection for a ½" of movement at the stick, and Robert Pesak is getting the same 5 degrees with every ½" (it will not be this clean since there is differential aileron motion on the original KR design) then he will have the same sensitivity, but just more deflection capable, therefore a higher roll rate. This won't make it more sensitive or harder to fly, but will lead to over controlling if one is in the habit of big control inputs. It also has the potential for being a little bit safer, due to the enhanced slow speed roll control. I personally would not change anything unless you find your ratio of activation greater than the plans call for. Brian sorry to hear about the plane! I was looking forward to giving you some IFR dual soon. Colin Rainey N96TA _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
