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Old 04-19-2010 | 08:28 PM
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HighPlains
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Default RE: lifting tail

If I'm not mistaken, the C130 uses a lifting section on the horizontal stabilizer. The interesting thing is that the airfoil is upside down.

Kurt, reading other people's posts and comprehending them is not a requirement to post anything. That is why you can read what you posted again and again. Why just last week I discovered water, next week will be air.

The decalage is easy to measure on the bench. What is harder to see is the effects of down-wash on the horizontal stabilizer. Because the amount of down-wash varies with the speed of the aircraft, but you have a greater effective decalage than actual measured decalage.