>No question full fling V tail could be done. No question that it would be a
>major engineering challenge to keep it light, super strong, slop free,
>especially a ruddervator version. There just isn't a lot of room at that end
>of most fuselages for the kind of hardware that would make it work. No
>question that an 'elevator-only' version would be much easier to engineer
>since it allows the two surfaces to be fully linked to one another. Just
>some thoughts....
>
Full flying V-tail, depends on how you define the Full flying part,
is not hard. I had a Muller Dhole with full flying v-tail.
What he did is using a single pivot rod that anchor to the tail boom
for each v. The rod has a thread part at the end. the V-half is then
"screw" onto the rod. Since the tail only move(rotate) about 15 deg.
When it rotate, it moves in and out a tiny bit on the rod. The
control arm is external on the surface of the v-tail.
Brian
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