To: Robert P Buxton
Cc: soaring@airage.com
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Aileron Flap Carbon Fiber Pushrods
I haven't had first hand experience with carbon pushrods but I would guess
that you could also run the risk of stripping a servo with a stiffer linkage
if you failed
: Michael Whitman
To: Robert P Buxton
Cc: soaring@airage.com
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Aileron Flap Carbon Fiber Pushrods
I haven't had first hand experience with carbon pushrods but I would guess
that you could also run the risk of stripping a servo with a stiffer
. If now, he probably knows
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From: Michael Whitman
To: Robert P Buxton
Cc: soaring@airage.com
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [RCSE] Aileron Flap Carbon Fiber Pushrods
I haven't had first hand experience with carbon pushrods but I would
Open Question to the group: Has anyone had experience (good or bad)
with using carbon fiber push rods for their aileron flap servo
linkage. This past season, due to slow thumb response at that
critical moment of retracting flaps just before touch down, I was
bending the flap push rods
I haven't had first hand experience with carbon pushrods but I would
guess that you could also run the risk of stripping a servo with a
stiffer linkage if you failed to retract the flaps on landing again.
It's cheaper to replace or fix the pushrod instead of a wing servo.
Mike
On Apr 3,
I think that the concerning issue is your response time on the flaps. Almost
everyone who owns a contest sailplane has been here and failed to retract
the flaps in time. I use carbon push rods as do most of the contest pilots
these days. I don't think there is an obviously less damaging choice
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