cavelamb wrote:
Brian Whatcott wrote:

Here's my fantasy design. Two tiny motorbike master cylinders, one on
each rudder pedal, and one slave cylinder on a horn each side of the
nose wheel.
Then the wheel could rotate and retract, and the hose pipes from
brake flexibles, would just flex. (Difficult to make this light
enough, I imagine.)

Brian W

I kinda suspect it would take a LOT more fluid flow than a brake master
could deliver - and a lot of pressure too.


There's one FAA design requirement that I can remember: rudder pedals
shall withstand 150 lbs force each, without fail or stretch.

Brian W