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Glider flight controls. How does the control stick make the ailerons work? (And what about those flaperons?)

The video is in three sections. (Sorry about the abrupt jump cut edits.) First section shows the control stick moved side-to-side to move the ailerons. That motion is carried by various push-pull tubes and bellcranks...aft of the landing gear. In the second section of the video we see the lever for one wing goes up while the other goes down.

But I have flaperons, not ailerons. The third section shows the result of moving the flap lever...the same wing control levers now move up together, or down together.

The mechanical mixer allows two different control inputs (control stick sideways motion, and flap lever) to be combined into one final motion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaperon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellcrank

This completes what was started here:
https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/114846515361228698

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