I love C-130s. And I would love to have another flight in one. When leaving
Vietnam, I flew in a C-130 from Phu Bai, in northern I Corps, to Saigon. During
the trip I got to go up in the cockpit and hang out for a while. Loved all that
glass.
--Bob
On Feb 22, 2013, at 3:22 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
> The C-130 also has a somewhat unique condition known as "fin stall", or
> something to that name. If you are flying too slow, the vertical stabilizer
> can stall out and you lose rudder control and have to use differential thrust
> to recover, especially if you have the flaps at less than 15% where the
> hydraulic pressure is reduced from 3,200 PSI to 1,400 PSI. This happened to
> a training aircraft at Little Rock AFB shortly after I left there. The
> aircraft crashed on the runway with the loss of all crew members. The "fin
> stall" concept was not at all familiar until Lockheed figured out what had
> happened.
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