[WWI] Nieuport aileron control

[Andy Bannister]

Pushing the stick to the left would raise the right side of the horizontal cross bar connected at the fulcrum of the stick which in turn pushes up the vertical push rod. This in turn rotates the bellcrank in the top wing centre section clockwise (looking towards the wingtip) which would move the right aileron down, thus the airplane would raise that wing and enter a left bank (rotary engine forces not included here of course!). The opposite would happen on the other side resulting in that aileron moving up and the left wing dropping. 
Bit difficult to explain but Mark's 3D drawings do show this quite well.
Andy
> 
> From: "Mikko Saarela" <saarela.mikko at kolumbus.fi>
> Date: 2008/11/12 Wed AM 06:04:59 GMT
> To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
> Subject: [WWI] Nieuport aileron control
> 
> Folks!
> 
> I've been wondering, once again, the aileron control of Nieuport scouts, Mark Millers 3D renderings are a good reference:
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> http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Miller/render/Nieuport/index.html
> 
> Seems to me that when you turned the stick to left the aeroplane turned right...??? 
> 
> 
> Mikko
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