"UP" Looking windows..

[TonyC]

A handy vacuum cleaner - that is until all sorts of paper clips, staples and who knows what else was found embedded in the leading edge of the vertical stab.

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I hear that having the port open is pretty loud.

The vacuum cleaner was an officially condoned use until a few incidents of interference with the Q-inlet on the leading edge of the vertical stablizer. The purpose of the Q-inlet was to provide artifical feel, based on airpseed, to the boosted rudder.

Clean cockpit, or properly operating rudder? Which shall we choose?





The noise was significant, but not intolerable.







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