| Image Comments |
| Skyediamonds1985 | 26-Jun-15 00:22 |
| The Wright Bros. had the rigging interconnected such that the wing warping rigging from the pilot's cradle to the wings were also directed to a couple of bellcranks that connected to the rudder. |
| Skyediamonds | 02-Jul-15 12:24 |
| Sorry guys. This posting was added out of sequence to the engine build. It was only meant to show how the wing-warping rigging included bellcranks interconnected to the rudder. The Wrights were geniuses in figuring out to have the rudder shift in the direction of the turning bank of the warped wings. -Sky |
| rgood | 02-Jul-15 13:58 |
| You are Wright Sky about "The right Boys" being clever in there control system! It was Orville who had the thought about the rudder - they were having problems with adverse yaw which was resulting in what they referred to as "well digging" - their machine would side-slip away from the direction of the turn and let them down heavily. Great story theirs is - anyone interested should read Tom Crouch in "The Bishops Boys" I have just started David McCullough's book "The Wright Brothers" it has started very well too! |
| rgood | 02-Jul-15 14:00 |
| Before Orville had his brain-wave the rudders were fixed. |
