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Re: Spit incident

Posted by Michael Clark on Tue Jul 09, 2002 06:38:37 PM

In reply top Re: Spit incident posted by TonyD on Tue Jul 09, 2002 06:21:04 PM

Just checked AP1565E for the Spitfire Mark V and it mentions inverting the aircraft or pushing the nose down sharply as a method of taking the weight of the wheels off the locking pins.

Seems like the 'old' ways are very often the best ways!

: Interesting, on the Hurricane the up locks are attached to
: the main centre section of the fuselage, one can view the
: wheels through two little windows in the 'floor' by the h
: eel boards. A gravity mechnism is fitted that simultaneous
: ly releases both uplock mechanisms (colloquially called th
: e kick down mechanism cos you activate it with your left f
: oot) allowing the wheels to drop. Inverting the aircraft c
: ould release the load on the up lock hook mechanism thereb
: y allowing the kick down to be operated more easily and al
: lowing the undercarriage to drop down when the pilot rolls
: upright again.....Pure speculation on my behalf based on
: a Hurricane. Now if it was a spit, the mechanism is in the
: wing (as the legs retract outboard as opposed to a Hurric
: ane retracting inboard.
:
: Glad he sorted it whatever the aircraft and type!
:
:
:
: : On the local Isle of Man news web-site it shows a pic of
: H
: : urricane PZ865, so it may have been that aircraft.
: :
: : Main thing is that the aircraft got back on the ground s
: af
: : ely. Well done that engineer :)
: :
: : M

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