Fairwater plane actuation explained

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  • RCSubGuy
    Welcome to my underwater realm!
    • Aug 2009
    • 1768

    Fairwater plane actuation explained

    It seems that I get repeated questions about actuating fairwater planes. I took a minute to write up a blog article about it and posted it to my site. If you have fairwaters, maybe worth reading!

    One of the questions that I get repeatedly is how to run linkages to the tower of a submarine that has operational bow planes in the sail (also correctly known as "fairwater planes"). Honestly, I'm at a bit of a loss, as I don't personally feel like this is magic or overly complicated, however due to the volume of inquiries, I wanted to do a post on this topic (mostly just to help alleviate my workload from repeatedly going over the same info again and again). The trick to fairwater planes is br


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  • Rhino
    Lieutenant, Junior Grade
    • Aug 2022
    • 21

    #2
    Thanks Bob! Well done, very helpful!

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    • He Who Shall Not Be Named
      Moderator
      • Aug 2008
      • 12253

      #3



















      Who is John Galt?

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      • RCSubGuy
        Welcome to my underwater realm!
        • Aug 2009
        • 1768

        #4
        David,


        Now... you know the next post is going to be a flurry of "where do I get those pre-made resin gears from!?"


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        • He Who Shall Not Be Named
          Moderator
          • Aug 2008
          • 12253

          #5
          Originally posted by RCSubGuy
          David,


          Now... you know the next post is going to be a flurry of "where do I get those pre-made resin gears from!?"

          Rhetorical questions fielded here.
          Who is John Galt?

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          • redboat219
            Admiral
            • Dec 2008
            • 2735

            #6
            Originally posted by RCSubGuy
            David,


            Now... you know the next post is going to be a flurry of "where do I get those pre-made resin gears from!?"

            Yes a decade ago , now it's "where do I get the STL files for those?"
            Make it simple, make strong, make it work!

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