TOAK, The Thread of All Knowledge Part XI
#354
02-14-2018 | 07:01 AM
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Of course I had to redesign the opening of the doors today because the hot rod engineer who designed them didn’t take into account that they would be wind loaded and the support structure behind the cameras doors bent on the first flight. I didn’t realize what had happened and changed the control box because the camera would not deploy in flight and on the second test flight nothing happened either because the doors were bound up. Came back, put the aircraft up on some very sketchy jacks and investigated the cause. My redesign? I took the doors off. Gonna go for flight 3 in a few minutes. I had goat for lunch from the chow hall here
#357
02-14-2018 | 07:04 AM
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Of course I had to redesign the opening of the doors today because the hot rod engineer who designed them didn’t take into account that they would be wind loaded and the support structure behind the cameras doors bent on the first flight. I didn’t realize what had happened and changed the control box because the camera would not deploy in flight and on the second test flight nothing happened either because the doors were bound up. Came back, put the aircraft up on some very sketchy jacks and investigated the cause. My redesign? I took the doors off. Gonna go for flight 3 in a few minutes. I had goat for lunch from the chow hall here
#358
02-14-2018 | 07:04 AM
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From: On a hill among the hills, PA
Of course I had to redesign the opening of the doors today because the hot rod engineer who designed them didn’t take into account that they would be wind loaded and the support structure behind the cameras doors bent on the first flight. I didn’t realize what had happened and changed the control box because the camera would not deploy in flight and on the second test flight nothing happened either because the doors were bound up. Came back, put the aircraft up on some very sketchy jacks and investigated the cause. My redesign? I took the doors off. Gonna go for flight 3 in a few minutes. I had goat for lunch from the chow hall here
