On Friday, January 2, 2009, at 04:59 AM, Peter Zutrauen wrote:
> 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?
Pete...quick answer: ...build variance...
It was my experience that as you assemble the mechanism, the manual
calls for just a tad of filing of one of the steel arms...do so w/
extreme caution...and you will be rewarded w/ a resounding TWANG as the
outrigger retracts while the nylon rod just touches the flap
hinge...excess filing results in sagging outriggers.
> tweaking the complex geometry of the outrigger mechanism....no?
IMHO, notions of "tweaking" should be abandoned...as you say, the
mechanism has a complex geometry...others have likened it to that more
often found in a typewriter rather than in an aircraft landing gear.
Cheers,
Fred
A194
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