psl wrote:
>It occurred to me that rigging up some sort of spring arrangement between
>the flaps and the outrigger mechanism might also work, i.e. going to full
>flap (maybe as much as 40 deg.) would lock them down, they'd stay down at
>20 deg., then retract when the flaps were raised from there on up. I
>doubt that I'd need more than the two positions.
This is my point in the first place. The reason for the slot in
OR5 is to cope with a range of flap settings without unlatching the
OR (std OR5, c. 20 - 30deg) the spring in normal circumstances
latches the OR at about 20deg, however (whoops - a great big tree
has just fallen over in the garden) if it gets stuck with the std
max at 27deg... see my earlier posts.
Regards;
Richard Meredith-Hardy
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