Bank and Yank

MacandRita

Active member
Hi Everyone,
I have seen this in many places in the forums and would like a clarification on exactly what you are referring to. My guess is that it involves the use of ailerons and elevator to do a turn without using rudder. I was playing with Clearview this afternoon and noticed that when I banked I had to use a little up elevator to maintain height while it turned. As I was using the keyboard I didn't have time to involve the rudder and turns without it seemed to flow easily enough. Is this the same in the real world? I see when people fly 3 channel they recommend putting the rudder where ailerons normally go and I assume that when they go 4 channel and everything goes in the right spot that the muscle memory doesn't cause too many problems and the ailerons initate the turns as easily as the rudder. Is this right or is it completely different?
Mac
 

Hai-Lee

Old and Bold RC PILOT
Hi Everyone,
I have seen this in many places in the forums and would like a clarification on exactly what you are referring to. My guess is that it involves the use of ailerons and elevator to do a turn without using rudder. I was playing with Clearview this afternoon and noticed that when I banked I had to use a little up elevator to maintain height while it turned. As I was using the keyboard I didn't have time to involve the rudder and turns without it seemed to flow easily enough. Is this the same in the real world? I see when people fly 3 channel they recommend putting the rudder where ailerons normally go and I assume that when they go 4 channel and everything goes in the right spot that the muscle memory doesn't cause too many problems and the ailerons initate the turns as easily as the rudder. Is this right or is it completely different?
Mac
When you bank the wings the lift vector is no longer only to oppose gravity and so the effective lift against gravity declines. By adding a little up elevator you increase the angle of incidence of the wing and therefore increase the wing lift. Done exactly right the extra lift due to the elevator input will increase the lift Vs Gravity back to equality and the plane will accomplish its turn without losing any height.

Mind you there are other forces in play including the balance point but generally height can be maintained through a banked turn.

The use of the Aileron Rx slot for the rudder on 3 channel birds is simply so that you do not get confused when going from 3 channel to 4 channel installations. When teaching others to fly, (yes I do instruct locally), I teach the newbies that the aileron channel is the PRIMARY turn channel and that the other channel, (the rudder(, is the secondary turn channel and is also used for balancing turns.

Rudder only turns are totally different in their mechanisms and a rudder ONLY turn can be near impossible to accomplish with a bird without any other stability mechanism such a dihedral or pendulum stability. A severe application of aileron with result in a roll whereas a severe input of rudder will result in a rapid, (Tail sliding), turn, roll and a dive. The rudder roll and dive can be better understood if you do a little research on the "Dutch Roll" effect.

Bank and yank is simple and effective especially on high speed aircraft as in racers and also in combat!

Have fun!
 

Mozella

Member
[QUOTE="Hai-Lee, post: 475490, member: 26654"........ SNIP............. By adding a little up elevator you increase the angle of incidence of the wing and therefore increase the wing lift. ......... SNIP.............[/QUOTE]

A VERY good reply, but I'll pick one little nit. What you increase as you add up elevator is the angle of attack, not the angle of incidence. The angle of incidence is fixed when you attach the wing to the fuselage. On simple trainers it is often set at a couple of degrees of positive incidence. For 3D flyers intended to fly inverted as well as they do right-side-up, the angle of incidence is most often zero. Typically the wing incidence doesn't change with one notable exception, the F-8 Crusader.

I'm particularly sensitive to the proper use of the word "incidence" because I logged 153 combat missions in the LTV F-8 Crusader, an interesting aircraft with a variable incidence wing.

Google it.

We raised the wing for take-off and landing which did a couple of good things. It allowed the fuselage to remain at a low angle so we could see over the nose which was nice for carrier landings. It also let us fly slowly with the fuselage not nearly as cocked up as normal aircraft and that allowed LTV to build unusually short, strong, and light main landing gear struts because the danger of scraping the tail pipe on landing was greatly reduced. As far as I know, the F-8 was the only aircraft produced in any numbers with a variable incidence wing.
 

Hai-Lee

Old and Bold RC PILOT
I am aware of the Crusader and its rather unique wing incidence altering mechanism. We needed to be able to recognise the aircraft of friends and Foes during my period of military service here!

As for the Angle of Attack Vs Angle of Incidence both are correct. It is a matter of where you were educated.

Just a quote/clip from the Wikipedia page on Angle of Attack - "Some British authors have used the term angle of incidence instead of angle of attack.[5] However, this can lead to confusion with the term riggers' angle of incidence meaning the angle between the chord of an airfoil and some fixed datum in the airplane.[6]".

Both terms are in use and are equally valid!

Have fun!
 

Mozella

Member
......... snip.......... "Some British authors have used the term angle of incidence instead of angle of attack.[5] ........ snip.......!

We fought two wars to break away from the British and we'll fight another one if we have to so that we can speak "Mercan" rather than the Kings English. When I tune my car, I'll say "rough idle", not "lumpy tick-over". And I will never smoke a fag. I like pecan pie for desert, not Spotted Dick, thank you very much.
 

Hai-Lee

Old and Bold RC PILOT
There we have it! You are free to speak "Mercan" or any other language you wish to and in a similar way I should be free to speak English, (or Aussie), if I wish to!

In a shrinking world it is better to try to understand what our neighbours are saying rather than to close our minds to the views and ideas of others. In recent history our countries have fought side by side in 4 wars, (not counting IRAQ), The rough idle is also used here along with poor idle. Lumpy idle is normally a reference to the massive cam lobe overlap and its effect at idle. If I had a spotted dick I would see a doctor!

Here we have both UK and USA versions of English readily intermixed and we use both in regular conversations without demanding specific terminology! Here we deal with Engineers, (and others), from many countries with different usages of poor English, it is just a matter of fact in a widely diverse world.

I did not say that the Angle of Attack was an invalid term but I did say that the Angle of Incidence is an equally valid term in engineering terms. As FT has a worldwide audience is it too much to ask for tolerance and consideration of others, their cultures, their language, and their views?

Please remember that this is not Facebook!

Have fun!
 

glideher

Member
some models can benefit from same-direction rudder, and others from opposite rudder, to smooth out a turn. It all depends on how the tail behaves when you execute the simple bank and yank. To learn the true method of bank and yank, its best to fly delta wing as it will have no tail and only control will be elevon mixing, bank and yank heaven :)




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Hi Everyone,
I have seen this in many places in the forums and would like a clarification on exactly what you are referring to. My guess is that it involves the use of ailerons and elevator to do a turn without using rudder. I was playing with Clearview this afternoon and noticed that when I banked I had to use a little up elevator to maintain height while it turned. As I was using the keyboard I didn't have time to involve the rudder and turns without it seemed to flow easily enough. Is this the same in the real world? I see when people fly 3 channel they recommend putting the rudder where ailerons normally go and I assume that when they go 4 channel and everything goes in the right spot that the muscle memory doesn't cause too many problems and the ailerons initate the turns as easily as the rudder. Is this right or is it completely different?
Mac
Yes. The correct answer is yes. :D And pecan pie is heaven sent.

I must be a little backwards, but given only three channels to work with I'd take ailerons over rudder any day of the week. For heaven's sake this isn't a CAR you're driving.
I learned on a 4-ch and I've never flown anything but a 4-ch. So guess what: I've never learned to comfortably and automatically use the rudder. No loss, but it's on my to-do list.

If you roll your plane a bit using ailerons, and then use your elevator, through the turn the plane is just flying normally the way it expects to. It thinks it's climbing. If instead you use just rudder, you're causing the plane to slide sideways a bit while trying to fly normally. There, I said it without trying to sound smart. :LOL:

Now we can get back to rudder rolls and variable incidence and lift vectors. And pecan pie by any other name is a crime. Murica!
 

BlockerAviation

Legendary member
Yes. The correct answer is yes. :D And pecan pie is heaven sent.

I must be a little backwards, but given only three channels to work with I'd take ailerons over rudder any day of the week. For heaven's sake this isn't a CAR you're driving.
I learned on a 4-ch and I've never flown anything but a 4-ch. So guess what: I've never learned to comfortably and automatically use the rudder. No loss, but it's on my to-do list.

If you roll your plane a bit using ailerons, and then use your elevator, through the turn the plane is just flying normally the way it expects to. It thinks it's climbing. If instead you use just rudder, you're causing the plane to slide sideways a bit while trying to fly normally. There, I said it without trying to sound smart. :LOL:

Now we can get back to rudder rolls and variable incidence and lift vectors. And pecan pie by any other name is a crime. Murica!
Yep, totally agree, for 80% of airplanes you can just bank the airplane using the ailerons and "yank" or pull back with the elevator. Here's a pic of a bank n yank pattern style plane I built the other day it's just ailerons and elevator. If you're just starting out, I would recommend flying rudder elevator because normally they are more forgiving. I learned on a sig sinorita with an os .20 four stroke that was just rudder elevator and throttle.
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CappyAmeric

Elite member
Yes. The correct answer is yes. :D And pecan pie is heaven sent.

I must be a little backwards, but given only three channels to work with I'd take ailerons over rudder any day of the week. For heaven's sake this isn't a CAR you're driving.
I learned on a 4-ch and I've never flown anything but a 4-ch. So guess what: I've never learned to comfortably and automatically use the rudder. No loss, but it's on my to-do list.

If you roll your plane a bit using ailerons, and then use your elevator, through the turn the plane is just flying normally the way it expects to. It thinks it's climbing. If instead you use just rudder, you're causing the plane to slide sideways a bit while trying to fly normally. There, I said it without trying to sound smart. :LOL:

Now we can get back to rudder rolls and variable incidence and lift vectors. And pecan pie by any other name is a crime. Murica!

Well said! (And thank you for your service).

Angle of incidence and angle of attack are two different things not unique to American English. The angle of attack is dynamic, ever changing as the wing travels through the air - angle of incidence is fixed (or variable on some aircraft like the Crusader). Angle of attack is the angle of the wing is in relation to the air in the direction of movement, angle of incidence is the angle where the wing meets the fuselage.

While we are on misused terms in the Flite Test world: “glide path” and “glide slope“ are two different things as well. When a wing glides well, it does NOT have a “good glide slope” - a glide slope uniquely identifies the vertical beam on an ILS instrument approach. When a wing glides well, it has a “good glide ratio“ or “glide path” (although glide path also refers to the vertical portion of an RNAV or SBS instrument approach). An R/C plane can never “have a good glide slope.“

Now back to pecan pie!
 

CappyAmeric

Elite member
Hi Everyone,
I have seen this in many places in the forums and would like a clarification on exactly what you are referring to. My guess is that it involves the use of ailerons and elevator to do a turn without using rudder. I was playing with Clearview this afternoon and noticed that when I banked I had to use a little up elevator to maintain height while it turned. As I was using the keyboard I didn't have time to involve the rudder and turns without it seemed to flow easily enough. Is this the same in the real world? I see when people fly 3 channel they recommend putting the rudder where ailerons normally go and I assume that when they go 4 channel and everything goes in the right spot that the muscle memory doesn't cause too many problems and the ailerons initate the turns as easily as the rudder. Is this right or is it completely different?
Mac
Using the rudder in conjunction with the ailerons is called a “coordinated turn” - it is one of the first things you learn you need to do correctly in a full sized aircraft.

Using only ailerons causes the tail to ”slip” and not follow the direction of the turn with adverse yaw. In some R/C aircraft, it isn’t critical because we aren’t always interested in efficient flight, just to from keep from crashing… likewise, using only rudder is less efficient than ailerons.

Bottom line: rudder and elevator work fine for turns on a small aircraft - but you are thus limited in the type of flying you do as most aerobatic maneuvers are best using all three axis (roll, pitch, and yaw).
 
Using the rudder in conjunction with the ailerons is called a “coordinated turn” - it is one of the first things you learn you need to do correctly in a full sized aircraft.

Using only ailerons causes the tail to ”slip” and not follow the direction of the turn with adverse yaw. In some R/C aircraft, it isn’t critical because we aren’t always interested in efficient flight, just to from keep from crashing… likewise, using only rudder is less efficient than ailerons.

Bottom line: rudder and elevator work fine for turns on a small aircraft - but you are thus limited in the type of flying you do as most aerobatic maneuvers are best using all three axis (roll, pitch, and yaw).
Good. Thanks Cap'n.
I sound like an aileron snob, and maybe it's better to learn with a rudder so you get used to using the rudder. :rolleyes: If you're just bank & yank, at least for me it seems a chore to figure out how to use the rudder to best advantage. I still stand to my proposition that it's more intuitive (in the most basic sense) to bank & yank, because that's how the plane wants to fly, but I understand there are a bunch of places where the rudder can be your best friend. This "tail slip" is something I've experienced a bunch, and it made me think I just need more vert stabilizer. I gotta get my act together! And it's my understanding that sailplanes use more rudder than anything else. To keep the wing level for optimal efficiency I think. (?)
 

CappyAmeric

Elite member
Good. Thanks Cap'n.
I sound like an aileron snob, and maybe it's better to learn with a rudder so you get used to using the rudder. :rolleyes: If you're just bank & yank, at least for me it seems a chore to figure out how to use the rudder to best advantage. I still stand to my proposition that it's more intuitive (in the most basic sense) to bank & yank, because that's how the plane wants to fly, but I understand there are a bunch of places where the rudder can be your best friend. This "tail slip" is something I've experienced a bunch, and it made me think I just need more vert stabilizer. I gotta get my act together! And it's my understanding that sailplanes use more rudder than anything else. To keep the wing level for optimal efficiency I think. (?)
The rudder works REALLY well if you are too high on approach to landing - a cross-coordinated turn (we call a slip) is super high drag that helps to loose altitude even in a R/C plane.

Plus, a power-on cross-coordinated vertical climb will give you crazy corkscrews that look amazing.
 

Mr NCT

Site Moderator
There we have it! You are free to speak "Mercan" or any other language you wish to and in a similar way I should be free to speak English, (or Aussie), if I wish to!

In a shrinking world it is better to try to understand what our neighbours are saying rather than to close our minds to the views and ideas of others. In recent history our countries have fought side by side in 4 wars, (not counting IRAQ), The rough idle is also used here along with poor idle. Lumpy idle is normally a reference to the massive cam lobe overlap and its effect at idle. If I had a spotted dick I would see a doctor!

Here we have both UK and USA versions of English readily intermixed and we use both in regular conversations without demanding specific terminology! Here we deal with Engineers, (and others), from many countries with different usages of poor English, it is just a matter of fact in a widely diverse world.

I did not say that the Angle of Attack was an invalid term but I did say that the Angle of Incidence is an equally valid term in engineering terms. As FT has a worldwide audience is it too much to ask for tolerance and consideration of others, their cultures, their language, and their views?

Please remember that this is not Facebook!

Have fun!
Thank you Frederick Loewe:

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him
The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him
One common language I'm afraid we'll never get
Oh, why can't the English learn to
Set a good example to people whose
English is painful to your ears?
The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears
There even are places where English completely disappears
In America, they haven't used it for years!
 

CappyAmeric

Elite member
Thank you Frederick Loewe:

An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him
The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him
One common language I'm afraid we'll never get
Oh, why can't the English learn to
Set a good example to people whose
English is painful to your ears?
The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears
There even are places where English completely disappears
In America, they haven't used it for years!

Bob’s your their uncle!
 

cgisneccesaray

New member
Aileron differential
You can combat adverse yaw by pitching the aileron going up more then the one going down... then you can do cordinated turns at a set speed with only a slight adverse yaw at different speeds.
I only know this because I plan on building a b2 and want as little yaw as possible. Not neccesaray and little benefit to most models.
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