In his diary for the following day, Orville wrote that " while lying awake last night, I studied out a new vertical rudder ."
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There were complex technical issues, notably whether Curtiss's airplanes used a vertical rudder and ailerons in ways that closely matched the patented design of the Wrights.
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Yaw stability was generally achieved by vertical fins, and control by vertical rudders, but the exact arrangement varied between types and even during the flight testing of individual machines.
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The " rudder controller " is a general gyrocompass controlled system, which is steering vertical rudders to keep the longitudinal axis of the torpedo in the sensed direction straight.
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The wing stretched from the single vertical rudder at the rear almost to the front of the fuselage, where two much smaller delta canards were mounted high on the fuselage.
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In the initial design, elevon ( combined elevator and aileron ) control surfaces were set into the trailing edge of the aft wing section, on either side of a vertical rudder.
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Rewarding their wind tunnel work, the glider produced the expected lift . It also had a new structural feature : a fixed, rear vertical rudder, which the brothers hoped would eliminate turning problems.
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Inertia coupling at Mach 3.2 killed pilot Lockheed F-104 Starfighter ( first flown in 1956 ) had its stabilator ( horizontal tail surface ) mounted atop its vertical rudder fin to reduce inertia coupling.
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Obry's device was notable for solving many problems; how to get the gyroscope to begin rotating as quickly as possible, how to direct the vertical rudders and how to maintain the fast rotation of the rotor.
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Both the vertical rudder controller and the anti-rolling controller had their own gyroscope, which is to start rotating when the torpedo is released from aircraft . Each gyro has dual ring support mechanisms to move freely.
