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The author says the design was constrained by the space available for it when stowed in the airframe.


Yes, the tailhook bay is very, very small. We had a primary disconnect in the bay for the instrumentation wiring for our tailhook sensors. Any time we had to get at that disconnect without having the tailhook trestle removed, we would call it "proctology".




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