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\nThis post clears up where the Draken main undercarriage RBF (Remove Before Flight) stripes end. You will find both main strut close-up photographs here – high quality shots I received from my modeller friend Juraj Bojkovsky (many thanks Juraj!).<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n The left (port) side leg.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The RBF strip\u00a0(fig. 1)\u00a0is, surprisingly, yellow and\u00a0black coloured (not red as one would suppose). The lock\u00a0(in yellow colour) <\/em>is placed between the undercarriage main strut and the\u00a0inner wall of the <\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>wheel well. It blocks the strut actuator and thus the whole leg – so the undercarriage cannot be retracted (while the lock is in place). <\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em>I suppose the lock is not a single piece, but\u00a0consists of\u00a0at least two interlocked <\/em><\/em>pieces.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n The upper shot was photographed slightly from behind the strut. The lower one was photographed <\/em>slightly from the front of it.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n The lock was relati<\/em>vely hard to shoot because of its position. I tried to imagine how it can be mounted in place. Please note its complexity too… <\/em><\/em>frankly I admire the maintenance\u00a0personnel – who must be able to mount and unmount them quickly – for their skill! <\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n Here are two shots photographed even more closer toward the upmost end of the strut (pls. note the mechanism linked with<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em> its end):<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em> You can see the front portion of the lock here (upper image).<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n The rear portion of the same lock\u00a0(upper image)<\/em><\/em> is blocking the rod which is protruding from it.<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n The right (starboard) side leg.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Both main undercarriage locks seem to be identical – and mirrored of course. But more photographs means better notion how it looks like – so here you are:<\/p>\n RBF strip, plastic-coated chain and blocking lock as on the opposite gear (picture above).<\/em><\/p>\n Rear portion of the lock\u00a0(upper image). <\/em><\/p>\n The following picture is showing the same area but looking more upwards:<\/em><\/p>\n Please note:<\/span><\/strong> More details showing the main undercarriage can be found here<\/a>.\u00a0And safety blocking bars of the front undercarriage can be found here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n My older\u00a0Austrian Draken walkaround<\/strong> can be\u00a0found here<\/a>. If you enjoyed this post, I\u2019d be very grateful if you\u2019d help it spread by\u00a0sharing it on Facebook.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Images\u00a0Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Juraj Bojkovsky. This post clears up where the Draken main undercarriage RBF (Remove Before Flight) stripes end. You will find both main strut close-up photographs here – high quality shots I received from my modeller friend Juraj Bojkovsky (many thanks Juraj!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3opQF-1fY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/modeltalking.hobbyart.sk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/modeltalking.hobbyart.sk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/modeltalking.hobbyart.sk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modeltalking.hobbyart.sk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modeltalking.hobbyart.sk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"http:\/\/modeltalking.hobbyart.sk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6695,"href":"http:\/\/modeltalking.hobbyart.sk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/6695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/modeltalking.hobbyart.sk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modeltalking.hobbyart.sk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/modeltalking.hobbyart.sk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"DSC_4315.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/modeltalking.hobbyart.sk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_4315.jpg\" "\\"Saab")
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\nIt is attached to the plastic-coated chain\u00a0(fig. 2) and the blocking lock (fig. 3) – picture below:<\/em>
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\nFor more reference photographs please visit the\u00a0References<\/a> category.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/strong>Text Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Marcel Meres.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"