Engines,
No, no, not at all, my friend. My point was simply that, given the amount of detail available about the behaviour of the wire, I was surprised that there wasn't a better understanding of what problems might (and eventually did) arise with the F-35C mainwheel to hook shoe distance. As you say, testing is to find the problems as well as the good stuff.
Your comment about increasing deck/shoe wear is exactly to point I was trying to make. And, of course, the fact that increasing the downward force alone is clearly not going to solve the problem. I'm pretty confident that the engineers can find a way to make it work - after all, compared to a lot of the challenges in getting the programme this far, the hook design shouldn't be a show stopper for them.
As ever,
Courtney
Last edited by Courtney Mil; 9th May 2013 at 09:05.