Originally Posted by
Chu Chu
...what kept the (hydraulic) seals from acting like (hydraulic) cylinders, and fully extending under pressure?
I'll have to find you a picture, I suppose!
But I would say the basic answers are
- the hydraulic lines at either end of the seal would be clamped down at some point,
- a hydraulic cylinder normally consists of a cylinder and a
piston, with the latter of course missing in the seal arrangement.
And then a very picky observation on the discussion about excess moisture evaporating vs. boiling off during flight at temperatures up to 100C. Wouldn't water boil well below 100C at FL 600?
You're quite right of course, but that would only be in the unpressurized part of the airframe.
The end result was of course that most if not all of the accumulated humidity either evaporated or indeed in some places literally 'boiled off', unlike subsonic aircraft.
CJ