Aerodynamics
Drag
Does anybody know if there was any information available as to the effect on the Herc of flying with the ramp below the horizontal i.e., with the arms removed as if in the ground loading position. This I ask from a personal interest, depending on the answers I might just explain my interest. I would imagine an obvious nose down moment on the aircraft but was there ever anything in print or word of mouth about it.
If anybody wondered how much vacumn you could get acting on the vent system on the internal tanks, you should have seen what happened to the alloy collector tanks with the transfer pumps in when the pipes collapsed, not nice! A fairly serious redesign resulted from that one.