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Old 2nd Sep 2013, 01:46
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Originally Posted by rjtjrt
Surprised the airspeed is 70kts for the drop, if I am hearing correctly.
You're not hearing correctly. Stall speed for an empty herc with no fuel would be 77-80 ish knots. I'm not sure what the "70" is, the audio is hard to follow. It *might* be flaps. Flaps on a Herc are in Percent. Normally you use 0, 50% or 100%. It's certainly possible that they use 70% for a drop.
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