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®i©ardo avait soumis l'idée :
On 15/07/2012 00:35, ;oD wrote:
Jess Lurkin avait écrit le 15/07/2012 :

This ~is~ a C130, yes?

I had never noticed this before on a 130. Maybe it was just an odd
angle or something.
It looks dorked up a bit.

Maybe that's what ~he's~ shooting?


Hi Jess,
This is the left elevator, pictured from the rear. Hercules' elevators
have a "horn" at their end.
Look at drawing:
http://tig.ludost.net/pics/airdisk/U...s/C-130_19.JPG
item #115.
Or at pictu http://motomom.tripod.com/rudder_elevator.jpg

;oD
aka Olivier

Thanks for the information Olivier. It's not something I noticed in my last
Hercules flight - which was in 1968 or 1969!

;-)

Ri©ardo

Right. This looks like the kind of horn designed to balance the efforts given
to the elevator, but it is really tiny.
By the way, I see most pictures of Hercs available online show their typical
front and profiles, not many their rear side.
One mo http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/c-130-970236c.jpg

This one shows the hole, at the rear end, on a pretty good angle :
http://aircraftwalkaround.hobbyvista...s/herky_39.jpg

But (speaking of rears) I still don't "understand" the picture posted
in the initial picture. It seems to me that something is rising before
the hole (did I write that ?), I mean that the upper part if the tip of
the elevator seems twisted upwards... instead of gently going downwards
to join the lower side...


;oD
who didn't fly in any C-130 (till now)
The Eco class is noisy.

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