¶ Trim Tab Sequence (1)
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Something hit me and hit me hard once-- thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary, the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. The rudder does a little tiny thing and causes the great big ship to do so much. So I said, I’m just little me and we have this great ship of state and society moving this way and I’m not going to get anywhere by getting out front and trying to push the bow around. That’s what all the reformers try to do.
So what could I do? Next thing, take flying. The rudder of your airplane, when you’re moving it’s a terrific job to move that thing. There’s a tiny section on the trailing edge of the rudder called a trim tab. It’s a miniature rudder. Just moving the trim tab like that builds a low pressure and that pulls the rudder around. It takes almost no effort at all. When you get into jets you have to do it that way; to move the jet at the velocity it’s going is like trying to move it in concrete. So the little trip tab pulls the big rudder around.
So I said: What does the little individual do? A little individual can be a trim tab. Society thinks it’s going right
¶ Citations
- RBF to Barry Farrell; Bear; Island; Tape #8, Side A, transcript p. 1; 22 Aug’70.
