05-17-2015, 10:05 AM
(05-17-2015, 10:02 AM)Surge Wrote: Rudder control can be achieved through small flaps on the extreme ends of the aircraft's wingspan
What people often call the rudder is actually called the vertical stabiliser, the rudder is just a small part of that, analogous to an aileron on the wings. The function of the v.stab being to stop the aircraft sliding horizontally while banking or turning. I'm not entirely convinced that aircraft would have sufficient "grip" as it were with those weird slopey stabilisers, and you'd need add pretty big stabilisers to the wing tips to have the same result :p