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Old 07-25-2003, 10:45 PM
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Mike James
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Default Yep

Me too!

I'd like to have a correct, tracked, jackscrew system for the King Air, rather than fake it with offset hinges, (done that plenty) if it can be done reliably and strongly.

Maybe we as a group can figure out a good way to do this that will help a lot on our scale projects.

Here are some drawings of real Fowler flap mechanisms that you may have seen. (patent drawings, and some nice (Russian) drawings I recently found.)
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