It's called a Gimbal Drive. If anyone can tell more about it, it must be
Hansjörg Streifeneder at www.streifly.de

Lars Peder


"Bob Whelan" wrote in message
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On 9/20/2010 10:01 AM, Dave Nadler wrote:
Does anybody have a drawing or picture of the
torsion linkage used to drive the ailerons in
early Ventus or the rudder in Libelle ?
Or can tell me what that's called ?

Thanks !
Best Regards, Dave

PS: It was used to avoid external bellcranks,
with their associated fairings and drag. It's
out of favor because it is problematic
(cost, weight, stiction, etc), and it turns
out the fairings add negligible drag...

Dave,

No drawings or pix, &, I've no idea what it's called, but George Applebay
used the mechanism on Zunis, so he or Fidel at the shop might know...

Regards,
Bob W.