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"Harry Andreas" wrote in message ... Size doesn't necessarily matter. ciao -- Harry Andreas May I relay part of your response to a certain young lady? Tex |
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In article , "Tex Houston"
wrote: "Harry Andreas" wrote in message ... Size doesn't necessarily matter. ciao -- Harry Andreas May I relay part of your response to a certain young lady? Tex LOL! Be my guest. -- Harry Andreas Engineering raconteur |
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In article , Mike Marron
wrote: I was hoping a mechanical engineer type would speak up. Now getting back to the "nuts & bolts" (pun intended) part of the issue at hand here, please explain why or why not you think that an F-4 could pull enough G so as to rip the ECM pod off the belly? From what I've seen in the industry, ripping a pod off under normal (or abnormal) circumstances seems unlikely. However someone pointed out that maintenance actions could be to blame. I remember the engine that fell off the DC-10 in Chicago was blamed on maintenance procedures. Some possible reasons: corrosion, overtorquing, undertorquing, misalignment, etc. -- Harry Andreas Engineering raconteur |
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Maybe an ECM pod did fall off a Sparrow well but that does not mean it
was installed correctly to begin with. Sparrow missiles themselevs weigh a hell of a lot more than any of the pods that fit in the well did. Now a good-sized country boy with a socket wrench could easily way over-torque the bolts "Ain't no way this sucker is coming off" and so overstress the attach bolts that not a heck of lot more stress would be needed to snap one and fail the rest as a result. Not that I'm saying one ever did come off. FWIW I had two of my Ds come back with the G meters pegged both directions and nothing fell of of them. Walt BJ |
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