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Old 4th Feb 2020, 16:13
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AnFI
 
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"We await your brand of simple yet effective servos to hit the helicopter market"

I think Bell, Robinson and others make a historically reliable single hydraulic servo arragement.
Certainly duplication of those would be unwarrented on a weight/reliability/cost/complication consideration.
(and MD helicopters achieve 100% reliabilty of servos by not having any)

One of the odd things about the regulation is that it pushes people into duplication of the servos without much consideration for the reliability of the common connection to them. for example imagine 10^-14 heavy, complex and expensive items held together by 10^-7 items (as in this case?)

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