Is there a difference between air and surface servos?

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Originally Posted by simplechamp

This might be a little off-topic, but what does it mean when a servo is labeled as cyclic? Does it mean they are constant rotation or something else? They seemed to be used in helis mostly.

Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

Dose anyone have an inside man at Hitec or Futaba that they can post these questions to them for us. I mean I can understand that yes wheeled vehicles are under more pounding pressures than plains are, but how much different can these servos really be inside to make them special for one or the other? I am curious now as well.

servos are servos are servos. Cyclic just refers to moving swash plates on helis. It's no different than saying steering or throttle servo.

Air/land/sea/cosmos they are all the same and just renamed for a broader sales spectrum.