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You need different min control speeds if you have different engines. The higher power settings you get with an engine, the higher the min control speed.

Also, the Rosemont pitot system gives you different speeds too, but not as dramatic as when you increase power.

If 89-9101 is their only \'89 model, then yes, it has been modified by AMP and will not return to Maxwell.

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89-101 was originally a Youngstown bird. Maxwell originally had all 85 models, but later picked up an 86 model when Chicago closed. That aircraft later went to AFSOC to become MC-130W. Maxwell and Youngstown traded two tails and then 89-101 went to the AMP program.

The 85 models have Rosemount pitot static systems, flush-mount HF antennas, and oil cooler augmenters.

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AMPTestFE wrote:

You need different min control speeds if you have different engines. The higher power settings you get with an engine, the higher the min control speed.

Also, the Rosemont pitot system gives you different speeds too, but not as dramatic as when you increase power.

If 89-9101 is their only \'89 model, then yes, it has been modified by AMP and will not return to Maxwell.

Whoa dude! While you\'re partially correct with the engine power this has nothing to do with the Pitot system. The different speeds related to engine power has nothing to do with the Pitot static system.

The different charted speeds related to Pitot static system differences is due to pitot mast locations and how the airflow is affected by the nose of the aircraft at different attitudes/airspeeds. These speeds are most notable at higher angles of attack as you would see at slower airspeeds such at takeoff/rotation, Vmca, etc. Several model herks have varied pitot mast locations with the Rosemount being the latest and most accurate system which others have posted, has 4 masts, two per side.

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