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![]() IIUC an antiservo tab works by deflecting a control surface in one direction so that the control surface then exerts a torque in the opposite direction. For example, suppose you have an airplane that tends to yaw to the right with the rudder and ailerons in their neutral positions. An antiservo tab would be adjusted to extend into the airstream to the right so that it deflects the rudder to the left. The airstream passing over the rudder then exerts a left torque on the aircraft so that the aircraft flies straight. ISTM that when the antiservo tab is extended the resulting torque pushes the rudder over until the airstream over the rudder exerts a torque of equal magnitude but in the opposite direction so that the net torque on the rudder and antiservotab as an assembly is zero. If that net torque is zero how does this arrangement exert a nonzero torque on the airplane? -- FF |
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