KJ-600 carrierborne AEWC thread & possible KY-600 (?) COD aircraft
- Thread starter Blitzo
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The E-2 was designed to operate from the WW2 era Essex class carriers. That imposed various size restrictions, explaining the upside down vertical stabiliser. The KJ-600 of course doesnt need to worry about such issues.
I have an instinct that this has something to do with the different mounting heights of engines. Remember air flow after propeller is turbulant not smooth, the air flow closer to the engine axis has different rotation speed than the outer meaning pressures. The configuration of E-2 and KJ-600 in this regards (engine mount and vertical stablizer) are reversed. Why the difference? Could be due to different wing profile.
This again demonstrate the similarity is only skin deep.
Originally E-2’s rotodome was designed to be able to be lowered on its pylon to reduce overall stowage height. The vertical stabilizer on the E-2 is shorter on top and longer on the bottom so the tops of the vertical stabilizer is at the same level as top of the rotodome when the latter is in its lowered position.
if the KJ-600 doesn’t have so stringent a stowage height requirement as the E-2, so it can’t lower its rotodome, then there is no point to restrict the heights of vertical stabilizer like the E-2 design. So it needn’t be shorter above the horizontal stabilizer then below it.