05-03-2013, 11:53
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C-130 Carrier Landing
http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/...arrier-landing/
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By the end of the 1950s, the Navy’s aircraft carriers were spending more and more time globally deployed, often very far from land. Special twin-engine carrier on-board delivery (COD) aircraft had been developed to bring them key supplies and passengers. The first of these was the Grumman C-1 Trader, which could carry nine passengers or 3,500 pounds of cargo. The C-1’s range was similarly limited, however, which meant that any time a carrier was more than 300 miles offshore, it was beyond the C-1’s range. In 1963 the Chief of Naval Operations ordered a feasibility study as to whether a larger aircraft like the C-130 might do the job better
On Oct. 30, 1963, Flatley and his crew of four flew out to a spot five hundred miles off the coast from Boston, where the USS Forrestal was waiting. Conditions that day were far from ideal. The seas were moderately rough, and they were facing 40-knot winds. Flatley’s biggest concern, though, was that the aircraft would not manage the maximum nine foot-per-second sink rate. But the Hercules did fine. The secret, he later said, was the excellent coordination he had with Landing Signal Officer Jack Daugherty
Over the next couple of days, Flatley and his crew made twenty-nine touch-and-go landings, and twenty-one full-stop landings and unassisted takeoffs from the Forrestal’s deck. In most instances the aircraft would touch down about 150 feet from the end of the deck, roll for a little under 300 feet and then take off from the same position, using what was left of the deck, leaving a couple hundred feet to spare by the time they lifted off. The aircraft took off with loads of between 85,000 pounds to 121,000 pounds.
Although Flatley’s flights demonstrated that C-130s could perform the COD role, the Navy instead picked the Grumman C-2 Greyhound, which had bigger capacity and better range than the C-1, though nothing like that of the C-130. For his efforts, Flatley was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal and was a rear admiral by the time he retired in 1987. Stovall, Brennan, and Sieve received Air Medals.
The idea of landing C-130s on carriers was briefly resurrected during the Iranian Hostage Crisis of 1980. A bold and very risky program called “Operation Credible Sport” was developed, in which a radically-modified C-130 would be flown into a Tehran soccer stadium, loaded with rescued American hostages and then flown out to a waiting carrier for offloading. One of the test aircraft, however, was destroyed during a test, and the operation was cancelled. In the last thirty years, there has been no further discussion on the subject.
נערך לאחרונה ע"י strong1 בתאריך 05-03-2013 בשעה 11:58.
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