I've been pondering on this one (to the extent that I've nearly finished
redrawing the mechanism in acad14) - but Andy thinks that a fixed, angled
guide pin in the same location does just as effective a job - and takes much
less work to do. Anyone tried this yet, and found any pitfalls?
Miles
> >Bob Jacobson's centre pin mod does a marvellous
> >job of making the doors close up flush to the fuselage.
> >
> >Tony
>
> Funny how great minds think alike. Jonti Docker, the man who made all the
> early Europa fuselages suggested that mod years ago. For some reason,
> probably other priorities at the time, it never got passed on, at least
> not in writing. I have to admit, I knew about it and this is the first
time
> I have written about it.
>
> It cures that irritating habit the airplane has of sucking (correction,
> blowing, there's no such thing as negative pressure) your shirt sleeve
into
> the gap that appears when the internal cabin pressure bends the door out a
> little.
>
> Graham
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