With the rise in lightweight and reliable electric gadgets throughout our homes - and even on our persons - the idea that machines should need heavy pumps and fluids applying great forces to move metal seems Dickensian, as anachronistic as steam engines.
But for aircraft engineers, replacing hydraulic control surface and
landing gear actuation systems with electric ones is turning out to be
a significant challenge. Continue reading...
(Source: GE Aviation, Illustration: Flightglobal)
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