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Post by pat perry on Jan 18, 2011 9:36:51 GMT 9
This goes out especially for Mark O. Williams. Buddy, I'm glad you never flight engineered on this one!
Pat P.
They sure coulda used an Osprey back then!
The "Credible Sport" military operation was a new plan to rescue the Iranian hostages after the dramatic failure of the Operation Eagle Claw rescue effort. Eagle Claw failed when a C-130 Hercules and a Sea Stallion helicopter collided in the Iranian desert, killing 8 servicemen.
Credible Sport was abandoned after the election of Ronald Reagan as President in November, 1980.
The Credible Sport plan called for highly modified C-130 Hercules cargo planes to land in a soccer stadium not far from the American Embassy in Tehran and airlift the hostages out. Three aircraft were modified under a top secret project at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida to YMC-130H configuration with rocket packages blistered onto the forward and aft fuselage, which theoretically enabled the planes to land and take off within the confines of the sports arena.
Here's the test video … first of some "lead in" JATO firings in the air and on the ground .. then a takeoff and then a landing test w. firing the JATO bottles in the air, which caused a "firm" landing … to say the least!
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Post by Mark O on Jan 18, 2011 13:01:51 GMT 9
This goes out especially for Mark O. Williams. Buddy, I'm glad you never flight engineered on this one! Pat P. Yea, me too! The thing I can't help but thinking though is if I'd have been there, and they would have asked, I probably would have done it. Mark |
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Post by MOW on Jan 18, 2011 18:21:25 GMT 9
Damn you thing there's enough fire on and around that thing from the rockets? Once the wing caught fire and came off what took them so long to shut the other engines down? I would have thought that would have been an emerg shutdown situation.
Great video :2thumbsup
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Post by Jim on Jan 19, 2011 0:56:51 GMT 9
Damn you thing there's enough fire on and around that thing from the rockets? Once the wing caught fire and came off what took them so long to shut the other engines down? I would have thought that would have been an emerg shutdown situation. Great video  Same question here... # 4 shutdown because it ran out of fuel.... When I flew on C-47s, I used to stand between the drivers to grab the throttles, just in case...... Most of our Gooney drivers flew 4x6 foot pieces of mahogany for 89 days and then wanted to be a pilot on the 90th day.......... Having heard Jato and Rato ignite, that must have been one hell of a noisey situation with 4 turbo props going as well.. They don't bang, they made sort of a whooishing screech sound, about 10,000 times louder than a model D or E rocket motor used in model rockets.... That take off roll looked to be about 75 feet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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