Just another hypothetical - which may lead to future real world experimentation...
OK, so since the dawn of time, and store bought horns and bellcranks there seems to have been a tacit standard in control horn heights (and geometries). Fast forward 50 years and the aircraft are larger, we're using bigger bellcranks, 1/8" horn wire. and carbon pushrods, and of course, ball links all over the place.
I know everyone loves ball links, and I see their place in stunt, but having seen aircraft die because of a broken ball link, and having my own issues with 'sticky' links in humid weather I'm not 'entirely' sold on the status quo.
From my limited understanding - would we be better off having the tallest horns we can fit inside a fuselage to lessen the loads, and reduce 'apparent' friction in the system, but also reduce compressive loads on the pushrod as well? Am I missing something?
Furthermore, if we can make the horns tall enough, could we not revert to bushed connections, and even with a few thousanths slop, that could me reduce at the trailing edge to an acceptable limit by having overly tall horns?