REFLECTOR: Ailerons

[Brett Ferrell]

The manuals say they're both 72" long.


	-------Original Message-------
  From: Scott Derrick
  To: Jim Agnew , Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
  Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Ailerons
  Sent: 30 Dec '11 13:43

             Kurt,

   something easily tested!  Clamp the aileron to the wing with a C   clamp
and get in ant move the stick?

   I have the STD wings, but I didn't think the long wings added that
much length to the torque tubes?

   Scott

   -------- Original Message --------
   Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Ailerons
   From: Jim Agnew [LINK: mailto:jim_agnew_2 at yahoo.com]
   To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list   [LINK:
mailto:reflector at tvbf.org] , Kurt [LINK: mailto:nmflyer1 at aol.com]
   Date: 12/30/2011 10:30 AM


Kurt, I can   assure you that with the long wing Sam Dasilva & I found
that you could hold the ailerion trailing edge flush with   the wing
trailing edge with your thumb & forefinger and   move the stick full right
 & left and the aileron would not move!


James F. Agnew
[LINK: mailto:Jim_Agnew_2 at Yahoo.Com] Jim_Agnew_2 at Yahoo.Com

Tampa, FL
Velocity 173 Elite Aircraft Completed & Flying


   FROM:   [LINK: mailto:nmflyer1 at aol.com] "nmflyer1 at aol.com" [LINK:
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   TO:   [LINK: mailto:reflector at tvbf.org] reflector at tvbf.org
   SENT:   Friday, December 30, 2011 12:07 PM
   SUBJECT:   Re: REFLECTOR: Ailerons


My old bird didn't have them (U-joints) in   the plans either. I remember
somewhere (either on   the reflector or in Velocity Views) folks talking
about adding the U-joint. From memory, I remember   this being for ease of
installation more than   anything else. I built mine per the old plans with
  no joint. The tube runs all the way to the wing   root.


I have not measured it, but I find it hard to   believe that any possible
twist in the aluminum   torque tubes would be any more than the tiny
amount of slop that is in most U-joints. Perhaps   the ones used are better
than any I have ever   seen.


Out to the hangar for a while for more finish   sanding.


Kurt


-----Original   Message-----
   From: Scott Derrick [LINK: mailto:scott at tnstaafl.net]
   To: Brett Ferrell   [LINK: mailto:reflector at velocityxl.com] ; Velocity
Aircraft Owners and Builders list   [LINK: mailto:reflector at tvbf.org]
   Sent: Fri, Dec 30, 2011 2:32 am
   Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Ailerons


Interesting,   I just checked my plans, and it does not show   a u joint.
That means Tom Wright the builder   added them. This was his 4th V I
believe.

   Brett Ferrell <[LINK: mailto:reflector at velocityxl.com]
reflector at velocityxl.com>   wrote:


Doug,


Where does it show that joint, at the   wing root end (or at the aileron)?


Brett


On Thu, Dec 29, 2011, at 10:53 PM,   Douglas Holub wrote:
> My 1987 plans   have u-joints on the ailerons. Are you   talking about
two u-joints for each   aileron?


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