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On Jan 19, 2:34 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
They have rudders, they're co-ordinated with the aileron. The later
ones had rudder pedals and many were converted to have them.

My Beech Sundowner has an aileron to rudder linkage. It helps
coordination, but the plane won't slip as well as a PA-28.

Ah, i didn;'t know they had that. Tripacers had it as well. Springs
so you could still cross them.

Bertie

Some 172s did, too. We have here a 172M that had the factory
seaplane stuff installed (forward strut lugs on the firewall, diagonal
braces behind the windshield, and the backside of all metal primed),
and they included a couple of springs between the aileron and rudder
cables in the belly. You hardly know they're there. I wonder if it was
a means of avoiding an extra keel surface like you see on Beavers and
some other floatplanes.
This one never did fly on floats.

Well, those are to compensate for the extra area out front. I wonder if
land 172 had them. I haven;t got a whole lot of 172 time but I've never
heard of those in any case..

Bertie