Europa-List: Outrigger question for all those Mono Owners

[Peter Zutrauen <peterz@zutrasoft.com>]

Happy New Year to all,

Quick question:  in many photos of monos in flight, the retracted outriggers
are below horizontal by almost 30 degrees in some cases.  Is this by design?
Or is it from build variance, or wear?

I would have assumed that the outriggers would be near 90 deg when
retracted, to minimize their frontal area. From the many build photos, it
appears that 90deg is not attainable due to the leg itself contacting
the flap hinge, but something very close should be feasible by tweaking the
complex geometry of the outrigger mechanism....no?

Cheers & thx,
Pete
A239