Re: Armadillo 4/18

AIUI, the movable nozzles on the Harrier are driven by a chain and
sprocket arrangement. 

	-p

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 19:27, Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 2004, Russell McMahon wrote:
> > The A4 / V2's vanes, which look to be carbon, appeared to hinge slightly
> > BELOW centre - but they had an extension further into the exhaust at the
> > bottom end and this would presumably have had an
> > overall bottomwards bias. Fascinating to see that they were driven by
> > sprockets and chains.
> 
> It's worth bearing in mind that many of the design details of the A4 were
> quick first cuts, dictated more by schedule pressures rather than by
> technical optimization.  They didn't have time to refine the design the
> way they would have liked to. 
> 
>                                                           Henry Spencer
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