Re: rear disc brakes on a Spitfire?

[Allen Nugent <A.Nugent@unsw.edu.au>]

At 00:00 29/04/98 EDT, you wrote:

>2) Add proportioning valve in the brake line to the rear to reduce the braking
>power to approximately the same as with the original drum brakes ...

Dan,

In case you don't know, the TR7 incorporates this feature. It also has a
safety valve in case one of the two brake systems fails. I don't know if you
could fit the servo in a Spitfire, but maybe you could get away without it.

Allen Nugent
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
University of New South Wales
Sydney  2052  Australia