Rudder counterbalance ?

[Gray E Fowler]

Ron

Good points.

I am in reality recommending getting above that buzz speed that you spoke 
of, using stiffness. I am proposing that this is an easy thing to do 
without adding counter weight or building a brick fuselage. My plane never 
buzzes or flutters, but then again I have never used full throttle while 
diving at the ground to find my buzz point, which is no doubt there 
somewhere.
All of this assumes adequate push rods or pull pull stuff.



" However, I disagree that increased stiffness is the best 
way to go.  Most of what people call "flutter" is really "control 
surface buzz", because it is essentially a one-dimensional phenomenon. 
Flutter is reserved by experts in the area to refer to oscillatory 
phenomenon involving two or more degrees of freedom (like wing 
bending/torsion or wing bending/torsion/aileron deflection)."


Gray Fowler
Principal Chemical Engineer
Composites Engineering
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