Twin tail design on plane...?

[StSanta]

Yesterday, despite rather bad weather with high winds and cloud cover...errr "industrial haze "... I got to jump from a Russian made AN-28. Takes 20 skydivers to 14 000 in about 10 minutes, total turnaround time 20 minutes. Has a tailgate:



Bit of a bad spot left us spread out over several kilometres, but managed to land between two hangars (and scaring myself because of all the turbulence, no fun)

Anyway, the plane has a twin tail thing. Obviously it's a great jump plane, because the tail is placed high up and away. But now I'm curious; from an engineers point of view, what are the benefits of this design? It's not something that's very common for some reason.

Any of you smart aeronautical dudes have any answers? Will need them soon; have to have some wisdom to brag about in the bar tonight

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[hawker238]

There you go.

[StSanta]

Yep fixed it, my bad. Too much to drink yesterday.

[hawker238]

I was confused for a second, because it was broken when I looked at it, then worked by the time I had posted, making my post useless.

[DiabloTX]

"Out of the Gold and into the Black.  Once you are there you never go back."

GO KNIGHTS

[montag]

Hope you didnt bump your head on the doorway. Looks like alot of fun.

[StSanta]

Originally posted by montag
Hope you didnt bumb your head on the doorway. Looks like alot of fun.

LOL, not on the doorway, but I exited kinda bad, so SLAM, bumped heads with my sister. Was glad I was wearing a Bonehead helmet

[Hawklore]

Originally posted by StSanta
LOL, not on the doorway, but I exited kinda bad, so SLAM, bumped heads with my sister. Was glad I was wearing a Bonehead helmet

Dude is your sis hot?






I didn't know chicks liked to jump outta things, damn there goes my idea on proposing, Say yes or jump..

[StSanta]

Dude is your sis hot?

I didn't know chicks liked to jump outta things, damn there goes my idea on proposing, Say yes or jump..

She's 26, blonde, former elite soccer player (with the fitness that comes with that), a medical doctor. Blonde. Has the same nose as me (i.e a tad too big, but that's charming). Way smarter than me, and she's been supporting my skydiving habit for a year now (will soon earn money working, so that'll at least stop).

I have some pics somewhere, but won't post them til a prospective buyer has provided me with an initial 100 jumps. Good faith thing, you know.

She can be yours for 200...scratch that, 400 jump tickets.

There are quite a few skychicas out there. True, it's a male dominated sport, but we have a saying:

"If your skydiving girlfriend breaks up with you, you haven't lost her - you've just lost your turn".

[newtype]

Very cool.

[newtype]

Im so impressed by that. Gonna have to think about jumping myself.

[Nilsen]

I think you should post pics o fher asap.

Always wanted to skydive but never found the time or balls to do it

[DiabloTX]

Website for my bro's scoring system.

 Omniskore!

[Glasses]

With santa's Heavy magnetic arse alone his sink rate would be triple of the standard parachutist

[Hawklore]

Originally posted by StSanta
She's 26, blonde, former elite soccer player (with the fitness that comes with that), a medical doctor. Blonde. Has the same nose as me (i.e a tad too big, but that's charming). Way smarter than me, and she's been supporting my skydiving habit for a year now (will soon earn money working, so that'll at least stop).

I have some pics somewhere, but won't post them til a prospective buyer has provided me with an initial 100 jumps. Good faith thing, you know.

She can be yours for 200...scratch that, 400 jump tickets.

There are quite a few skychicas out there. True, it's a male dominated sport, but we have a saying:

"If your skydiving girlfriend breaks up with you, you haven't lost her - you've just lost your turn".

Sounds hot enough for me... I need pics for proof though..

Umm, I don't jump out of perfectly good airplanes, take me up in that russian one, then I'll jump.