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Credible Sport Test YMC 130 H

Started by GTX, March 26, 2011, 02:54:29 PM

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GTX

All hail the God of Frustration!!!

CanisD

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Gondor

At a guess the failure was due to the wing being over stressed from the sudden landing. If in the last "landing" the downwards firing rockets had been used the landing could well have been a success.

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

sandiego89

Too many of the stopping rockets were fired when in the air, causing the aircraft to slow too much.  Flight engineer was blinded by the top rockets and thought they were on the ground, so he fired off the remaining braking rockets. 

An excellent on line book tells the whole story, and much more about the special ops C-130's.  Great read. 

The Praetorian STARShip : the untold story of the Combat Talon By Jerry L Thigpen

Crash in chapter 9, page 244. 

http://books.google.com/books?id=nJPUqEmN1ukC&pg=PR32&lpg=PR32&dq=honey+badger+credible+sport&source=bl&ots=5bi12kokDR&sig=HchrcFYNybXriHVhkhedM8pRhW0&hl=en&ei=6JKPTaq5G4XAsAOQ6NCUCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDkQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=honey%20badger%20credible%20sport&f=false

Dave "Sandiego89"
Chesapeake, Virginia, USA

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Very cool video, don't think I've ever seen that one. Thanks !

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arkon

it was meant to land in a soccer stadium in iran to rescue the us hostages in the 80's.iirc
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