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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
The first time I was old enough to really understand airplanes and I saw a C-130 I wondered why the tail was so cut off on the rear. Then I saw one rotate for takeoff, and I understood.
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I worked on a program where we mounted a laser in a C-130. I was the engineer responsible for the design of the turret retraction system. We would lower the laser turret out of the bottom of the C-130, blast things with the laser, and then retract it back into the fuselage. The problem was the turret, when lowered, extended below the point where the landing gear would be so in the event the retraction system failed, the plane would have an interesting landing. I came up with a manual method of retracting the turret that used an existing speed wrench included in the C-130 for manual lowering of the landing gear.
