Originally posted by Skuzzy Uh, did you look at all the images on the front page?
Originally posted by Arlo Ok ..... found it. I am ..... happy.Very happy.As such I will stop asking for the Sherman Tank ... or .... ummm .... even the Spanish Civil War. For at least a month.(Seriously .... it's good to see the F4U lookin' this good - and detailed - in the game)
Originally posted by Mace2004 Those are the trim tab linkages. The vertical piece is a horn attached to the trim tab and the straight line is the actuating rod. It appears that the inboard tab is a normal trim tab because the linkage goes directly into the wing. The outboard tab is probably either a servo or anti-servo tab which are typically used on unboosted flight controls (i.e., no hydraulic system to move the control). If the designer wanted to decrease the amount of pressure the pilot needed to move the control surface he'd put in a servo tab. Let's say you wanted the trailing edge of the aileron to move up, the servo tab would deflect down to assist the movement. If the designer wanted the control force to be harder to move then he'd put in an anti-servo tab which moved in the same direction as the trailing edge making it resist the movement. I don't know which the Corsair used but I'd assume they're servo tabs because of the size of the plane and control surfaces which would require quite a bit of stick force to move without assistance.MaceMace