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Originally Posted by flamefixed
very nice way to deploy the forks.
in the other post i was referring to how do you release the forks for launch? and then bring them back down to reset?
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check out the video again, around 0.34 through 0.38 seconds in the video you'll see the awesome release latch slide...*cough*...curt...*cough*...(inside joke)...
When the sail is in fork truck mode, the tubing is loose, no tension. we lock the latch. stretch the sail like stretching a rubber band..then we release the latch like pulling a pin. It's a safe setup when in the pits, unless we stretch the sail...
After the sled fires, we return to fork truck mode, sail returns, and the forks fall at a rate of 32.1740 ft/sē or 9.80665 m/sē.