Jake Donovan wrote:
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All other stories about rocket assists, modified pitch, downward thrust are
all fairy tails.

Jake

PS On a lighter side - On the fuselage below the cockpit was painted "Look
Ma, no hook!"
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Gord Beaman wrote:

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Iwan Bogels wrote:
There was a famous experiment to prove that a fully loaded C-130 could
land on a carrier. The roll-out was 270 feet. Thrust reversers were
used before it was on the deck. I'll bet those landings left something
to be desired for comfort. I think I can find a short video of the
landings and will be happy to post it if someone can tell me where.

I don't think that pitch was reversed in those trials.


I don't know but it could have been after the a/c was on the deck
and even before with some futzing with the squat switch circuits
that normally prevent that. I've seen both of the tapes. How do
you know that they didn't use reverse?
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-Gord.
(use gordon in email)

Smoky Stover told me that they used pitch reverse, and that the squat
switches had been bypassed to allow it without WOW.

I never knew on how many of the landings they used it or not.

Rick



Yep, stories do change over time:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...ft/kc-130f.htm

Mine was heard at a meeting in 1969 when LCDR Bob Browning was chosen to
take a maintenance crew to get a Herc off the ice in Antarctica before
winter broke it up. It had taken off a wingtip on a snowbank. The crew
cleaned off the crunched metal, faired off the nub, and it flew out with
one wing 11 feet (IIRC) shorter than the other.

I have no idea how many feet it took on the opposite rudder pedal under
full power. Trim probably wouldn't quite handle it.

Rick