Question regarding the A 10 ladder. On the real A 10, is that a fixed pole with pegs that a ground crew member clips into place? Or is it telescopic pole, retracting back inside the compartment? Thanks in advance.
The ladder is telescoping and hinged at the top so that it lays back into the ladder compartment. A Hog driver can start and launch the jet autonomously......except for stowing the ladder. I always figured that in a pinch, I'd probably be able to tie a lanyard to the bottom step, climb into the jet, and pull the ladder up like an anchor. I did come across a photo of a mangled ladder that had popped out during flight and bent back along the fuse.
The ladder is telescoping and hinged at the top so that it lays back into the ladder compartment. A Hog driver can start and launch the jet autonomously......except for stowing the ladder. I always figured that in a pinch, I'd probably be able to tie a lanyard to the bottom step, climb into the jet, and pull the ladder up like an anchor. I did come across a photo of a mangled ladder that had popped out during flight and bent back along the fuse.
Hey Legman, thanks for weighing in on something you really know about. I had always wondered about that ladder being deployable or retractable from the cockpit. So it's strictly a ground crew thing unless you get creative. Thanks, Brad
Exactly what I had in mind, even bought the tubing but noticed that the ladder was going to be offered as an option/upgrade so decided to "wait and see". I had even considered making it truly telescopic and hinged to fit in an actual box and door installed in the side of the fuse.:Ligthbulb: At some point I realized that I was probably making my same old mistake of "scaling" myself right out of half the flying season !!!!!!! Maybe next winter with the operable canopy and the,and the,and the,Brad
Exactly what I had in mind, even bought the tubing but noticed that the ladder was going to be offered as an option/upgrade so decided to "wait and see". I had even considered making it truly telescopic and hinged to fit in an actual box and door installed in the side of the fuse.:Ligthbulb: At some point I realized that I was probably making my same old mistake of "scaling" myself right out of half the flying season !!!!!!! Maybe next winter,Brad
I plan to make mine recessed in the fuse and telescoping. It shouldn't be too difficult to do.
I plan to make mine recessed in the fuse and telescoping. It shouldn't be too difficult to do.
I couldn't figure out how to keep the "telescope" from over extending and falling apart. No room for stops.......unless you had a set of lines set at designated lengths attached to the inside of each segment and then anchor them at the top.:Thinking:Hey , I might have just figured it out!!!!! Brad
....and I am working with Callie to make 1/10 ordnance decals; but so far can't read the text/ #'s/lettering on the 1/32 ones that I have.....so still a work in progress. If anyone has readable ordnance decals please lemme know ......
I couldn't figure out how to keep the "telescope" from over extending and falling apart. No room for stops.......unless you had a set of lines set at designated lengths attached to the inside of each segment and then anchor them at the top.:Thinking:Hey , I might have just figured it out!!!!! Brad
Well??? :Confused: It would be one more trick scale feature now wouldn't it? :)
I am using 7 tubes sizes from 10mm down to 4mm... 10, 9, 8, 7, etc... The 9, 7 and 5 form the stops for the 10, 8, 6 and 4. Make sense?
So you could cut small rings of the 9,7,and 5 top and bottom to form stops. I also thought of that but wondered if the resultant double stepdowns would be too much to look scale. And hey Clearblue my freind there's always room for more input. A telescopic cockpit access ladder that folds into a hatch with a closeable magnetic door would be the:Bomb::Cool:Brad
You got it. I wondered the same thing Brad but after getting the tubing and sliding it together to mock up how it might look I don't think it will be a problem and I am not trying to be crazy accurate (scale) anyway. The tubing walls are .45 mm thick so you end up with a 1 mm step from one tube OD to the next. I just guessed on the largest tube needing to be 10 mm since I have no plane to reference to. Plus, I don't think the bottom tube would look right if it was any smaller than 4 mm.
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