Aren’t the C-130J’s able to be ‘prodded’ ???

IIRC, the refueling probe is a role fitment – and attaches to the port upper fuselage when needed.

Correct, the probes on the J are a bolt on affair, IIRC they’ve not been cleared for flight in the J Release to Service document, but I may be wrong.

John

hi Cees

If the Project will pay my way, I’ll go and survey it myself!

seriously though, I may be wrong, but I don’t think that the wings are that similar between the types, I stand to be corrected though. That cockpit would sure be impressive at Newark next year though:diablo:

To follow on from the previous post, FI is most commonly calculated from fatigue testing of the airframe assembly which is tested to destruction. That’s where the number crunching comes in and the designer will apply a Factor of Safety (FOS)to the component life. If a structure fails at 18,000 repetitions of applied stress a FOS (commonly 3) would be applied to give a ‘safe’ life of 6000 repetitions.

For Military aircraft the means of operation can accrue more FI depending on the operating environment. A good example of this is the Valiant which was designed to operate at high altitudes with a more benign flight regime and suffered spar fatigue problems when switched to low level operations, where more violent manouevres were needed.

My first overnighter at Newark, a suntan on me bonce and great conversations with all and sundry. For once I didn’t clean out the bank balance and I’ve been spurred on by all the great work that’s taken place. For my money all the winners were well deserved but I think that Matt and Sean should be singled out for the great work they’ve done on turning their Canberra around in such a short space of time.

I now have another full order book for Chippy panels so please don’task me to make any more as I’m beginning to see them in my sleep!:diablo:

Thanks to all at the Museum for making us all so welcome

John

on the look out for anything ww2 mainly:
-anything related to RAF gun turrets.
-ww2 wireless equipment.
-ww2 navigation equipment.

for possible cockpit section mock ups.

What mock ups have you got in mind?

IIRC the Stirling had electrically actuated u/c and it was terribly unreliable and having refurbished one of the gearboxes, unnecessarily heavy. lThe manual lowering of the u/c works in almost exactly the same way as the Herc in that a locking pawl is disengaged allowing a handle to be rotated. A job to be given to the lowliest member of the crew/erks (delete as applicable:diablo:)