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Old 25th Jan 2003, 18:13
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galaxy flyer
 
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Not so fast on the C5!! The crosswind gear was never installed on the B-models and was removed from the A's about 10 years ago. It didn't align with the ILS signal either. The engineer went into a rather daunting chart and determined a crosswind gear setting. The co-pilot had a knob to set in the correct gear setting. It was graphically shown on a gauge that Lockheed no doubt charged a small fortune for. All five gear rotated to the set crab angle.

Has been done wrong once or twice, setting it in as a drift angle instead of a crab angle. Wasn't there, but V. exciting. Lockheed came to the rescue after the dust settled.

I never felt comfortable using it and the maintenance effort brought about the gear changeover. It was frightfully expensive to maintain and would occaisionally go duck-footed for no reason. A very quick halt!!
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