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Seafury1
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Nice! What is the little dangly thing in front of the gear in the close-up?
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Nice! What is the little dangly thing in front of the gear in the close-up?
Curb feeler! :wink:

Or, an antenna.
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bdk wrote:
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Nice! What is the little dangly thing in front of the gear in the close-up?
Curb feeler! :wink:

Or, an antenna.


I'm not sure if that actually qualifies as a doo-hicky! Dangly implies movable.

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Transponder Antenna is the small antenna at the top of the photo.
Items on the nose gear leg above the scissors is the Shimmy Dampener. The small container is filled with hyd fluid and then pressurized to 15 psi IIRC.
The 2 tubes with lines from the reservoir are spring loaded pistons under pressure.
Keeps the nose wheel from shaking. The nose wheel is not steerable and you use brakes to steer along with engines.
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She sure has come a long way and it looking great!

They ever going to get a 20mm replica in the nose to go with the 4 50s?
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really nice work balancing light and shadow for some dramatic pictures of ordinary items. You and your camera work them very well.
Only one thing sounds better than an ALLISON, two ALLISONS making over 60 inches!

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Wonderfull close up images! Do you have any more?

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Very SEXY photos!!


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