Pat Flannery wrote:
You can see it on these drawings of the LK:
http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/l/lkkaluga.jpg
http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/l/lkkaluga.jpg

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Yep - I've seen them - and the myspacemuseum pic.

Still not the smoking-PrOP-M-deployment charge that I was looking for.
It's not that I distrust diagrams but we've all seen artfully
airbrushed diagrams (thinking mostly here of Venera and Luna cutaways)
which are just too neat and tidy. I sometimes wonder if the
zond-equivalent of Trotsky hasn't been removed to make the diagrams
more pleasing.

I *could* imagine a slab of crushable material beneath each footpad, as
a means of reducing the jolt to the main legs which appear to be
articulated. Such a block might plausibly be missing from boiler-plates
and EM versions, but in the absence of photographs of such a thing I'll
mentally file it under 'perhaps'. For all we know the material may not
have been canonical aluminium honeycomb.

Ah well - thanks Pat, for digging around.

-James Garry