{"id":3972,"date":"2019-06-09T21:10:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T01:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=3972"},"modified":"2019-07-27T21:27:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T01:27:28","slug":"trimming-the-starboard-stabilizing-ailertooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=3972","title":{"rendered":"Trimming the starboard stabilizing ailertooters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an unfortunate tendency to communicate in movie quotes, so bonus points to you if you can identify the &#8220;starboard stabilizing ailertooter&#8221; reference <strong>without<\/strong> using Google, Bing or some other internet search megalith.<\/p>\n<p>No, the Mighty RV doesn&#8217;t have ailertooters but it does have ailerons and that&#8217;s what prompted the title. One of the last bits of cockpit work is installing the aileron trim motor; I fitted the bracket way back when I was building the fuselage center section and all that was left was to install the motor and connect it to the flight controls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-06-09-18.27.56-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3973\" src=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-06-09-18.27.56-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Aileron trim installed\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-06-09-18.27.56-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-06-09-18.27.56-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-06-09-18.27.56-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-06-09-18.27.56-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t take any in-process pictures, so all you get to see is the final product. The trim motor is under the square white bracket in the lower center of this picture. It drives a lever that&#8217;s connected to the control sticks with springs which are adjusted to be in just enough tension that the motor can move the sticks but not significantly affect roll control feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an unfortunate tendency to communicate in movie quotes, so bonus points to you if you can identify the &#8220;starboard stabilizing ailertooter&#8221; reference without using Google, Bing or some other internet search megalith. No, the Mighty RV doesn&#8217;t have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/?p=3972\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ailerons","category-avionics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3974,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3972\/revisions\/3974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}