Soaring Accident in Washington State

On Oct 18, 10:02*am, JJ Sinclair wrote:
If the DG-1000 uses the same hokey torque-tube that they used in the
DG-300 to drive the spoilers with the over-center lock mounted on a
thin root-rib, that flexed easily under load...............the one
open, one closed would be near normal situation.

Hmm. I've rigged and derigged DG1000 a number of times and never had
to do anything special with the airbrake lever and the brakes stay
locked with the wing off the plane so, yeah, the overcenter lock must
be inside each wing. Never thought about that.

Both airbrakes and ailerons are definitely driven (at least initially)
by torque tubes with self-aligning V-shaped slots.