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> From: piclist-bounces@MIT.EDU 
> [mailto:piclist-bounces@MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Stevens
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:09 PM
> To: 'Microcontroller discussion list - Public.'
> Subject: RE: [OT]:: Darwin award candidates - Sukhoi SU62 
> G-SIID and 5 friends
> 
> Two things feed my suspicion.
...
> 2) Look at the line where the shadow cast by the rear horizontal tail 
> aerofoil (I forget what it's called) cuts through the letters 
> SIID. Project 
> that line to the ground. It hits the ground far to the rear 
> of where the 
> ground shadow of that aerofoil appears in the photo.
> Richard


You're assuming that the elevator extends from the body as a linear
taper from the root; it doesn't.  The trailing edge of the elevator is
cut back near the body to allow side-to-side movement of the rudder.
The shadow angle that crosses the "SIID" is not caused by the angle of
the sun, but by the angle of the trailing edge of the elevator.

Gary

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