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Aviation History
1918
1918 - 0394.PDF
APRIL II, 1918. arrangement sketch, and in 4, Fig 29. Just inside the strut socket the cup-shaped terminal for the diagonal bracing cables of the undercarriage is secured, while a short distance above the socket is situated the attachment for one of the main lift cables. This ball and socket joint, which is used with slight variations on nearly all German machines, appears to be almost the only fitting that may be truly said to have been standardised by the Germans. It is made in a range of sizes, no doubt all made to some uniform standard, so as to render it applicable to a number of different types of machines. The 5%. it**!. ALBA.TRO* Fig. 29.—Some details of the undercarriage of the Albatros. 1. General arrangement of the undercarriage.2 and 3. Detail of cable terminal. 4. Steel strip passing under body, to which is welded the front chassis strut socket. 5. Attachment of rear chassis strut to body. 6. Lower attachment of chassis struts andshock absorbers. 7, 8, and 9. Details of same. 390
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