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Old 05-28-2006 | 10:52 PM
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Tall Paul
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Default RE: True Airspeed and Flutter

The Compass Cope C-130 mod put an APU in the left main wheel fairing.. its inlet was -ahead- of the static port for the airspeed system.
On the first flight, at liftoff, airspeed went berserk... had there not been the test instrumentation system with a seperate static port available. that flight might have been very short!