That's aircraft in a nutshell. I read a book on light aircraft design by a now long dead professor[2]. He had a penciled out analysis of what would happen to a 2 seater light plane if you replaced the simple and light stick with cables design[1] with a hydraulic one. Only added about 40lbs more weigh. Or 300lbs when that was propagated through the design. And needed a bigger engine.
[1] Control surfaces operated by a system of cables and pulleys controlled by a stick.
That's aircraft in a nutshell. I read a book on light aircraft design by a now long dead professor[2]. He had a penciled out analysis of what would happen to a 2 seater light plane if you replaced the simple and light stick with cables design[1] with a hydraulic one. Only added about 40lbs more weigh. Or 300lbs when that was propagated through the design. And needed a bigger engine.
[1] Control surfaces operated by a system of cables and pulleys controlled by a stick.
[2] KD Wood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Dawson_Wood