On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 at 13:06:26 in message
t, John T Lowry
wrote:

Sounds to me like an idea worth pursuing. Could have two shear pins,
with visually checkable integrity during preflight inspection, to
counter the problem of one failing.

Good idea but when both were in place the shear failure load would be
twice as strong?
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David CL Francis