Short final to 34L at JAN. We get these guys at an airport near me several times a month. They shoot approaches day and night.


LarryMc

Yikes, those guns must create a lot of drag!

Yeah probably they cause some drag... but it's a Herc with a matt paint scheme... it isn't exactly "slippery" to begin with!

That's what rudders and trim tabs are for.......trim that dude up. Realistically they probably have quite a bit more reinforcement in the fuselage.


Larry

Drag's the price one pays for mission performance.

E.g., floats?

Even small antennas create drag, a lot actually, so the planes that have all their antennas inside huge fairings actually have lower drag than those with a forest of tiny antennas.