Originally Posted by
FlexibleResponse
These comments from Richard Jones are very interesting, especially his gut telling him that the drop was hard on the aircraft.
Is there something going on that we have not factored in to load dumping?
I wonder if the high density of the water flowing from the hopper under the wing would increase the forces applied around the wing root
attachment structure and strut attachments as a consequence just from the high density water flow and/or buffeting around the wing and tailplane in itself?
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https://aviation.stackexchange.com/q...g-payload-drop
Thankyou for taking the time to read and consider my observations etc.
That's quite an accolade, coming from an academic, for a dumb farmboy, who left school at 15 with nothing.
None of us know all the answers. No one.