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| Ground shakes with the thrust-lever set to TOGA! |
Semi-delighted... our factory operatives working to the width of a human ear-lobe, though going forward this is definitely something I'll be leaning on my cousin to 3-D print, albeit some form of reciprocal back-scratching will be required.
Nonetheless I book a test-pilot who over the course of an hour and at great risk advances the thrust-lever through REV, FLX and TOGA time and again: the back-plate holding up to whoops and cheers at Mission Control back in the kitchen!
Though as we're working to aviation standards I ask if he can stick around and do it another 100,000 times, but he's got an appointment at the hairdresser's and thus I sign it off after just ten under a special concession granted by the CAA.
Able to add a line to our Pilot Operating Manual too, as a part of shutdown checks:
Prior to leaving the flight-deck retard thrust levers to the max REV detent to stop the back-plate falling out in transit due bathroom silicone separation.
