Evening, Richard M-H.
You wrote - "The reason for the slot in OR5 is to cope with a range of flap
settings without unlatching the OR".
I thought that the reason for the slot was to isolate the flaps from the
outrigger when latched down so's all that rumble and knocking is not transferred
through the flaps to all the other undercarriage mechanism, lever, overstop,
etc.
I also thought about shortening the slot to assist in getting the flaps down but
on reflection felt that retaining the flap isolating system may be a "Good
Thing".
I was about to paste something along these lines when the subject first arose
about sticky mechanisms etc, but just before I could hit the send button my hard
disk decided to join the others in the sky.
Come to think of it, I wonder if this is where Terrt Pratchett got his idea for
his Disk World novels?
But, still interested in all these ideas.
Hope the tree didn't do too much damage!
Regards,
Peter
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