Hercules Tailplane setting
Posted: 10 Mar 2012, 16:45
Can a member please tell me whether, from a side view, the tailplane of the C-130E/H is set higher than the wing?
I have no good drawings of the Hercules and searching the images on the web has not helped.
In some photos the chord line of the tailplane appears to be level with the leading edge of the wing, in other views the tailplane appears to be a little higher or lower than the wing. Difficult to judge because the wing slopes down from leading to trailing edge at the angle of wing incidence.
It would be useful to know what the vertical difference in ft &inches is between the leading edge of the wing at the fuselage joint and the leading edge of the tailplane at the fuselage joint.
I have no good drawings of the Hercules and searching the images on the web has not helped.
In some photos the chord line of the tailplane appears to be level with the leading edge of the wing, in other views the tailplane appears to be a little higher or lower than the wing. Difficult to judge because the wing slopes down from leading to trailing edge at the angle of wing incidence.
It would be useful to know what the vertical difference in ft &inches is between the leading edge of the wing at the fuselage joint and the leading edge of the tailplane at the fuselage joint.