Author Topic: C-130 landing and taking off from carrier (Read 348 times)

Animal · « **on:** February 26, 2003, 05:48:22 AM »

http://forrestal.org/fidfacts/page18.htm

amazing

batdog · « **Reply #1 on:** February 26, 2003, 06:54:37 AM »

c130's are designed to land and take off from very short runways Animal... the type found in 3rd world nations....

I guess this design makes them viable for a carrier IF the navy deemed it was needed.

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Mini D · « **Reply #2 on:** February 26, 2003, 07:52:31 AM »

Everything I've seen says its not feasible. Saw footage of them trying to launch one using JATO (didn't see it on this one) with an empty plane that barely made it off the deck.

MiniD

Dux · « **Reply #3 on:** February 26, 2003, 09:31:12 AM »

No, MiniD, it's real... I've seen the video (on Wings I think). IIRC, the crew was awarded the DFC for doing it.

the 40-knot headwind made a huge difference, I'm sure.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #4 on:** February 26, 2003, 09:33:19 AM »

Lets see it land on the CV now.

Mini D · « **Reply #5 on:** February 26, 2003, 10:07:12 AM »

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Originally posted by Dux
No, MiniD, it's real... I've seen the video (on Wings I think). IIRC, the crew was awarded the DFC for doing it.

the 40-knot headwind made a huge difference, I'm sure.

I know it was real. I watched it too. But it was a cleaned version of a 130 with no cargo that I remember seeing... that used rockets to assist because the plane was too heavy to use the catapult.

I seem to remember the conclusion being that you couldn't carry enough cargo to make it worth the effort (basically, the navy already had planes that could carry enough).

MiniD

Smut · « **Reply #6 on:** February 26, 2003, 10:07:28 AM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Lets see it land on the CV now.

Here you go Rip...

http://www.airspacemag.com/ASM/Web/Site/QT/HercOn.html

Yes, it has been done. For real.

-Smut

Ripsnort · « **Reply #7 on:** February 26, 2003, 10:10:26 AM »

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Originally posted by Smut
Here you go Rip...

http://www.airspacemag.com/ASM/Web/Site/QT/HercOn.html

Yes, it has been done. For real.

-Smut

Hot damn! I'da never believed it without video.

Arfann · « **Reply #8 on:** February 26, 2003, 11:03:11 AM »

Not hard to believe. They used to bounce 'em into little aluminum strips in RVN all the time. Khe Sanh was particularly interesting with low clouds full of rocks and slick red mud all over the aluminum.

Curval · « **Reply #9 on:** February 26, 2003, 12:29:47 PM »

I have a guy who served in the Royal Air Force as a navigator on C-130s sitting in the next office over. He was pretty amazed at the details of this and had never heard of anyone even trying it.

He said "I guess it is possible...they must have stripped all non-essential weight out of the plane before the load went in...but, "I" wouldn't have volunteered to be in it when it took off."