The Ventus Strut is pushing up.
Part of the preflight on my Ventus B is to push down on the inboard flap
both sides to feel the gas strut pressure.

Al

"JJ Sinclair" wrote in message
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Bob K wrote..
As you point out, the big problem is bending of the
wing with fully deployed flaps, which tries to bend
the flaps in the plane in which they are most rigid.

If one were to bounce, or land in a rough field, in one's ASW-20, with 45
degrees of flap on, the downward motion of the wings would force the
deployed
flaps to move up, thus bending the internal flap push-rods. I would think
some
sort of sliding push-rod arrangement might prevent this situation. The
Ventus
has a gas strut that will allow the deployed flaps to come back up. Do I
have
the Ventus gas strut figured out correctly, you Ventus drivers?
JJ Sinclair