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Adrian W65

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  1. I`ll try a bit more explaining. This pic shows the trailing edge flaps at 1/2 flap. The ailerons look strange merely because the control stick most likely was pushed to the left as the hyd. pressure bled off on shut down; that would have trended the rh aileron down and the left up. [F4 Ailerons didn't really go up much more than a couple of degrees, relying on extending the spoilers that side to take the wing down] Mostly flaps were kept up on parked F4s because when they were down they allowed BLC air to be bled off off the engines if they were running. Also not good form to start an engine with flaps down as this would bleed air as it tried to start. If wings were folded and flaps selected down then hot hazardous gasses would come out of the BLC bellows at the wing fold. Mechanical connections physically opened the 4 BLC valves as the LE/TE flaps moved. A microswitch allowed hotter/higher pressure bleed air to enter the manifold as the TE flaps went from 1/2 full position. Part of the procedure for rigging TE flaps is adjusting the length of its Jack eye-end to create a stretching tension on the jacks internal mechanism so that when the flap meets the upstop a certain hyd pressure is required to seat an internal lock in the jack. This keeps the flap mechanically locked up even when hyd pressure is removed. A jack eye-end incorrectly rigged would allow the jack to `lock-in` too easily and thus not really be locked-in when hyd pressure is removed. A flap rigged that way can be pulled down and droop, but you would never see this on an operational F4. The 1/2 flap position of the T/E flap is also an internal detent in the jack [I don't remember any adjustment for this] L/E flaps were either up or down. Both positions maintained by an over-centering of a pivoting mechanism that stopped movement when Hyd pressure removed. This is how I remember what we did, but it was a very long time ago.
  2. The other 2 sprues appear to be S and T. Ive been trying to keep track of all the sprues and what goes with each issue. 18 different letters so far, 19 if you count L1 and L2 for the 2 different stabilators so far. Adrian
  3. My first post, been visiting for a while. It took me a while but now i can see that it is Leuchars. What looks like one long hangar is actually 2 hangars with the gap obscured by the aircraft. The far hangar is ASF and the nearer one is what became Tornado ASF. Duncan, i worked in that hangar with you. I came up with the bunch from Coningsby in about Nov87. We made a new team or maybe two, can't quite remember. CT Mac McDonald for a while then Dick Trewern and Jules Turner. I remember John Brandie, Jack McRoberts, Trev Trangmar to name a few. Nat Fisher, John Pimlot, Ifan Davies, Pigpen ..... all the best Adrian Wright
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