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Touch and go. Landings and take offs.
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Wow, that plane is even more bad ass then I knew it to be. It didn't even use the long deck of the carrier for takeoff. Very sweet. -
I remember finding out about it when I first joined the C-130 community. Bass ones those guys had. IIRC there was less than 10 feet clearance between the superstructure and the right hand wing. When you're talking about a bird with a 100ish foot wingspan.......
The sad thing is. You'd never find any higher ranking officer with balls big enough today to sign off on an operation like this. Things that push the envelope. Things that do things just to see if we can do them. Too much ORM these days for shit like this and too much politics.
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That was badass, I wouldn't have wanted to be on it during all that though lol. And we civilians though a combat landing in Afghanistan was bad lol.Comment
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Lol at the "Look Ma No Hook" painted on the side of the C-130!"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." - Thomas Jefferson, 1776Comment
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The U2 did it also. Granted it used a tail hook and steam ram, but still, equally impressive/ballsy.
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Damn that was a short landing.sigpic🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄🐄
Without my gun hobby. I would cut off my own dick and let the rats eat it...
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Operation Fish Hawk
I heard about this years ago from a pilot of a U-2 that lived here in Dallas. He alluded to the carrier landings and take off but never said if it was used operationally. I always thought he was one of the pilots that was on this mission.Mustangs previously owned:
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For more info on the U-2 carrier operations (U-2 Operations after May 1960, page 53-57) and its CIA history, download these recently released docs for hours of interesting reading.
Mustangs previously owned:
1967 Coupe V8 (My first car)
1992 LX AOD
1993 LX Drag Car
1995 GTS
1997 Cobra
2000 Cobra R
2002 Corvette C5 A4 10.64@ 127.1
Undercover SC Dragster 8.10's
In the garage now....
2016 Honda Accord Touring
2015 F-150 Silver 5.0 XLT SuperCrew, like new condition
Retired 2008 after 41 years as an EE at LTV (Garland)/TI/Raytheon. Enjoying ham radio now.Comment
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Once upon I was a C130 guy, and I tell you what, that aircrew had one big set for sureComment
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Holy shit. I had no idea you could land something that big on a carrier.
I wonder why they did that, just to see if they could?Comment
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"Hold my beer and watch this..."Originally posted by Trip McNeely View PostHoly shit. I had no idea you could land something that big on a carrier.
I wonder why they did that, just to see if they could?
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The Pacific is a BIG mother and flying over Europe to get to USSR is a bit of a gimme... (Just speculating.)Originally posted by Trip McNeely View PostHoly shit. I had no idea you could land something that big on a carrier.
I wonder why they did that, just to see if they could?Originally posted by Taya Kyle, American GunComment
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