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Vehicle & Technical => Not Anything Listed Above.... => Topic started by: Colin 009 on April 16, 2006, 17:25:11

Title: Crazy or Brave you decide
Post by: Colin 009 on April 16, 2006, 17:25:11: Landing a C130 on an Aircraft Carrierhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4015390308129405896&pl=true
Title: Crazy or Brave you decide
Post by: ben_haynes on April 16, 2006, 17:52:49: Both Brave but Crazy
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Post by: the loon on April 16, 2006, 18:03:27: notice theres no pictures of it taking off again

:-k
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Post by: Bush Tucker Man on April 16, 2006, 18:22:42: Quote from: "ben_haynes"
Both Brave but Crazy

You're forgetting 'incredible'
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Post by: BIG UGLY PERSON on April 16, 2006, 18:28:03: Crazy and very Brave, but like said above dont see it take off. my question is, did it take off again or did they dump it?
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Post by: Manicminer on April 16, 2006, 18:53:52: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3656815532557531640&pl=true
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Post by: the loon on April 16, 2006, 19:22:10: ok now I'm impressed.
Being americans I was thinking it probably went over the side.
=D> =D>
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Post by: Bush Tucker Man on April 16, 2006, 19:31:24: That's simply incredible :shock: :shock:

I've seen footage of the JATO'd C-130 & that's also amazing
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Post by: PUX on April 16, 2006, 20:34:46: i work with hercules and i tell ya i have seen em do some crazy stuff, the space they can land in and take off is completely amazing u should try and be in the back of one when its doin a tacital landing i.e as if it was being shot at :(bloodshot):
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Post by: ben_haynes on April 16, 2006, 20:52:14: Quote from: "PUX"
i work with hercules and i tell ya i have seen em do some crazy stuff, the space they can land in and take off is completely amazing u should try and be in the back of one when its doin a tacital landing i.e as if it was being shot at :(bloodshot):

i have been in one when i was an Air cadet

they are amazing
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Post by: bezzabsa on April 17, 2006, 18:08:22: Quote from: "PUX"
i work with hercules and i tell ya i have seen em do some crazy stuff, the space they can land in and take off is completely amazing u should try and be in the back of one when its doin a tacital landing i.e as if it was being shot at :(bloodshot):

I was 'buzzed' by one last week while makiong a delivery into Knighton on the welsh borders..I could see the pilots face he was so low...scared the excrement outta me!!!!
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Post by: gtomo2 on April 17, 2006, 19:21:33: Quote from: "PUX"
i work with hercules and i tell ya i have seen em do some crazy stuff, the space they can land in and take off is completely amazing u should try and be in the back of one when its doin a tacital landing i.e as if it was being shot at :(bloodshot):

Been there done that and think my stomch is still in the plane. We did a tacital landing to take a airfild and we were in scimiter tanks :shock: .
Dont want to do it again
Title: Crazy or Brave you decide
Post by: PUX on April 17, 2006, 19:25:10: Quote from: "gtomo2"
Quote from: "PUX"
i work with hercules and i tell ya i have seen em do some crazy stuff, the space they can land in and take off is completely amazing u should try and be in the back of one when its doin a tacital landing i.e as if it was being shot at :(bloodshot):

Been there done that and think my stomch is still in the plane. We did a tacital landing to take a airfild and we were in scimiter tanks :shock: .
Dont want to do it again
i tell wot did impress me i was sent out to afgahnistan in a C17 and that had todo a tactical landing and for a thing that size it was short of amazing and yes my stomach was left behind and the 4 tonners we had chained in the back where giving it some serious leaning and straining :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by: gtomo2 on April 17, 2006, 19:31:19: yea i can relate to that looking at the side of a scimiter tank as it stains the chains and looks like its sliding towards you :shock:
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Post by: Llanigraham on April 18, 2006, 20:38:49: Yep
Did the TAC landing thing when I was an Air Cadet too. They were putting them down on the white lines at the end of the runway at Lyneham!

And if you think they are low over Knighton, go up to Staylittle, near here. They fly over there, below the tree tops, with the back door open, sitting on the back having a fag!!!
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Post by: Manicminer on April 18, 2006, 20:50:10: Quote from: "Llanigraham"

And if you think they are low over Knighton, go up to Staylittle, near here. They fly over there, below the tree tops, with the back door open, sitting on the back having a fag!!!

Further North we tend to look down at them as they fly below us.

The jets are the same. Not so much these days as they tend to train 'Foreign' pilots.

In the weeks before the first Gulf War a lot of tactical training went on in the skies above us and 24 Herculies flying low in formation is a sight to see.
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Post by: Colin 009 on April 18, 2006, 23:11:39: It seems you guys have a soft spot fot the Herc. :D
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Post by: gtomo2 on April 19, 2006, 18:54:42: yea nice little beast it is. The best thing i can remember about them is the shower curtain in the corner that is the toliet :lol: .
But i have to say is the lancaster bomber just to hear those four merlins firing up and the sight of one in the sky or at the end of a runway 8)