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Originally Posted by ElAurens
I'm not sure what Treetop is on about other than that
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What I was on about is that in some models of the P-40 there was no electric motor to drive the hydraulic pump, and the pilot had to manually operate the hydraulic pump that operated the gear. With other models the pilot selected the landing gear with a switch and then operated the electric hydraulic pump with a trigger button on the control stick. At any rate, it was just a passing comment with no seriousness about it, and only mentioned it because I thought it was an unusual procedure for gear operation for an American aircraft.
I was not speaking of the articulation of the gear.