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;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

That horn is a mass balance weight. Without it, the plane could be in a
heap o' hurt, due to flutter.