[quote=Edchris177][quote] (Roll Swaging - not sure how it got its airplane name) [/quote]
Before fly-by-wire, all planes, (and small airplanes today) used cables to control critical moveable flight surfaces, think ailerons, rudder, elevator.
The early bi-planes wings were quite thin, & not strong enough to support flight loads, so they used cables & wires to turn the wings into sort of a truss. Some of the early ones were more wire & string than airplane.
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They also have to often fit into fairly tight spaces, & they must be 100% dependable.
An aircraft rudder works much the same as your Cat rudder. It would be rigged with a short crossbar mounted perpendicular to the rudder. On each end of the crossbar a cable would be attached via fork/pin. These cables would be routed through bell cranks & pulleys back to the cockpit controls, with each fitting safety wired.
Often turnbuckles were used to allow for fine tuning, so your rudder pedals & control yoke were not cockeyed, & to adjust tension in cables.
With most aircraft swages a preservative compound is applied to the cable before insertion into the terminal barrel.[/quote]
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