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Old 28th Mar 2006, 11:09
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Centaurus- the spoiler deflection due to high control wheel angle would be quite significant, and compared to it, the drag from the ailerons would be quite minor. Mscar is looking at this from an academic 'xx degrees control wheel deflection throughout the take-off roll'. I think there is no answer to his question because you may start off with full deflection at slow speed, but this will markedly decrease as speed increases, so at high speed there is little or no drag as both rudder and aileron control angles will have been largely washed out to almost zero. It is just not quantifiable.
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