John Keeney wrote:
wrote:
WaltBJ wrote:
Sure you can land a C5 in Central Park. Actually, the word is more
properly 'crash-land'. Everybody is going to die and the airplane burn
to ashes but hey - it's Hollywood! Hell, you can land a C5 on a carrier
- if you can swim really well. I think the word I'm looking for is
"Schlockmeister". Sheesh. Wayne, go watch the Israeli movie 'Entebbe'
and see what can realistically be done.
Walt BJ
SNIP
Well to be fair, and to get a word in edge-wise before he gets the
thorough caning he so rightly deserves, the C-5 was designed to
operate from short, rough fields. Of course, in the case of of the
Galaxy, "short" and "rough" are relative. So far as I know, no one has
ever attempted "for real" to use the C-5 as an assault
transport....memories of that wheel bounding down the runway sans
aircraft after a demonstration of this "capability" before a
Congressional delegation and a national TV and press pool are still
too vivid in the USAF even after 40 years or so
You sure that wasn't a proper (aka "paved") runway?
SNIP
Might have been...memories get misty...let me check....although if it
was, that made things even worse - "if it does THAT on a proper runway,
what the %#2& will happen on a tactical strip or a stretch of
autobahn?"
Found this..looks like you're right...thanks for the correction!
"Rolled out at Lockheed's Marietta plant on the 2nd of March 1968, the
first C-5 (66-8303) of an intial order of five, was prepared for
initial trails at Dobbins AFB. The 94-minute maiden trouble-free
flight, with Loe J. Sullivan as pilot and Walter E. Hensleigh as
co-pilot, was made from this Goergia base on the 30th of June 1968.
Located in Marietta, this airfield is known as Dobbins AFB by the USAF
and by the USN as NAS Atlanta. Since early 1951, the runway and other
facilities have been shared with Lockheed-Georgia Company.
The first phase of manufacturer's flight trials proceeded without major
problems (exempt for the loss of a main wheel during a routine landing
accident; after the aircraft came to a standstill, the wheel was
replaced, with the media having a field day with this event),"