Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

To: sonofstrangelove

We will see how fast it is after landing on gravel and dirt like the C-130 does.


3 posted on 07/04/2010 8:47:31 PM PDT by 999replies (Thune/Rubio 2012)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]


To: 999replies

Its still on the drawing board. The one thing going for it is the STOL capability.


4 posted on 07/04/2010 8:48:54 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]

To: 999replies

A C-130 landed and took off from a carrier in some special tests. Without assist. USS Forestall...

“Altogether, the crew successfully negotiated 29 touch-and-go landings, 21 unarrested full-stop landings, and 21 unassisted takeoffs at gross weights of 85,000 pounds up to 121,000 pounds. At 85,000 pounds, the KC-130F came to a complete stop within 267 feet, about twice the aircraft’s wing span! The Navy was delighted to discover that even with a maximum payload, the plane used only 745 feet for takeoff and 460 feet for landing roll. The short landing roll resulted from close coordination between Flatley and Jerry Daugherty, the carrier’s landing signal officer. Daugherty, later to become a captain and assigned to the Naval Air Systems Command, gave Flatley an engine “chop” while still three or four feet off the deck.”

http://www.theaviationzone.com/factsheets/c130_forrestal.asp


7 posted on 07/04/2010 9:12:10 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson