Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-lymph!dimeo From: dimeo@lymph.DEC Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Control surface failure Message-ID: <108@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 11:48:18 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.108 Posted: Fri Nov 30 11:48:18 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 03:37:56 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 9 The worst failure would be the elevator. I have experienced aileron failure on my R/C models and ( if I figured out what was happening before it augered in) you can control it with prudent use of the rudder and LOOOOOOONG turns. I have seldome been able to recover from elevator failure but then the trim is the same as the elevator control in a model. The rudder failure is the least problem. In models we seldome use the rudder in normal flight and only in the Quarter Scale stuff does it actually become noticeable.