Timeline for Were there engineers in airship nacelles, and why were they there?
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| Jul 2 at 11:04 | comment | added | noughtnaut | Ah, yes. I hadn't considered friction within the cable. In the days before teflon linings, 150m of sheathed cable might as well have had a knot in it. | |
| Jul 1 at 10:29 | comment | added | RedGrittyBrick | @noughtnaut Nowadays Google doesn't show me Bowden cables longer than 25m for sale. Perhaps friction and elasticity made 150 m Bowden cables unsuitable in the 1930s? | |
| Jun 30 at 16:08 | comment | added | noughtnaut | To your 2nd point, you say such long mechanical linkages "are" (present tense) impossible, but would Bowden cables not have been able to provide such linkage? Apart from the issue that they were invented only a few years prior and were probably not easy to manufacture at such lengths...! | |
| Jun 28 at 23:16 | history | answered | Mark | CC BY-SA 4.0 |