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.