From kls Thu Apr 7 13:55:14 1994 Newsgroups: sci.aeronautics.airliners Path: bounce-back From: Pete Mellor Subject: Re: Antenna? References: Message-ID: Approved: kls@orchard.Chicago.COM Sender: kls@orchard.Chicago.COM Date: 07 Apr 94 13:55:14 PDT > I recently flew on an Airbus 320 (Northwest). I > noticed that underneath the wings there were what appeared > to be support 'struts'. I think that there were three of > them on each wing. I didn't look closely last time I saw an A320, but the FCOM 1.01.10 PP2-3 does not show any such struts (at least, not clearly - the diagrams of the general shape of the aircraft are not particularly easy to read). > On the end (tail side) of these 'struts' > there was a black rod sticking out. It looked similar to a > car antenna. There were similar rods (five I think) sticking > out of the winglets. What are these rods? No such rods are shown in the FCOM, either. (Again, I am going by a small-scale diagram.) The diagrams do, however, label all the antennae. They are all on the fuselage. None are on the wings. > ... out of the winglets. Eh? What winglets? Are you *sure* that was an A320? Peter Mellor, Centre for Software Reliability, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB Tel: +44 (71) 477-8422, Fax.: +44 (71) 477-8585, E-mail (JANET): p.mellor@csr.city.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------------------