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Old 01-19-2014, 11:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Treetop64 View Post
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.
I could see that being modeled as a variant on manually retracting/extending the landing gear, only rather than mashing a key multiple times to simulate cranking a handle, you have to hold down the appropriate key for a certain length of time to simulate holding down the pump control trigger.
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