A C-130J crew at the Paris Air Show, putting the venerable Hercules through maneuvers I would not have thought possible.
H/T to occasional reader David for the link.
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22 » For Your Viewing PleasureBy lex, on December 11th, 2011
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“I think I’ll make it”
Words that inspire a lot of confidence.
When the A-10′s retired and the F-35 is discovered to be less of a CAS platform, I guess they can rethink Spookey and hang 105′s under the C130J wings.
I want to watch them walk out to reload!
The A-10 is a platform that needs to be retained and updated as needed.
D’oh! Right on both accounts. I was thinking though of the fear the Spooky put into the Taliban. Kinda lost out on mechanical details.
Sorry – your post brought to mind a flying ONTOS. Effective but weird.
Now maybe a nose mounted 75mm…that has been tried before, B-19? Somewhere around there.
PBJ-H Mitchell.
Yeah. But one of the B designations under 20 had it at least tried out in them. The -25s had all sorts of things done to them. Some in R&D, some by crew chiefs saying “Weeellll, if we….” in response to a pilot grousing about some problem.
B-25G and H models
http://home.mchsi.com/~anderson.kevin/b25h_pictures.html
You got dat right, sure got dat right. A-10 is absolutely one of the best CAS platforms I have seen since I have been involved with with the military. And that would be since I was just a kid and absorbing everything I could about WWII. Yeah, I know I’m a fossil, a boomer, born in 49′ but I was in Thailand and Vietnam and I was up close and intimate with CAS and since then I have been a disciple of the P-47, A-1 Skyraider, AD-1 for you Navy types, the A-26K, A-10 and attack rotor wings. High flying interceptors and pursuit are not my cup of tea, I’m more interested in supporting the guy on the ground. They’re the ones who have to hold the ground. They need the CAS. Sure, I know, The strategic and tactical considerations but ya gotta keep the guys on the ground safe and in fighting mode.
Bitchin’ Betty was NOT happy.
No kidding! She was crying the entire flight just about…and no offense to any AF trash hauler types, but I didn’t think they let you fly like that? Regardless, the AF needs to hang some Gatlings and missiles under that Herky, the pilot drives it like a fighter!
And did anyone else besides me hear the pilot called, “General” at the end?
Serious, damn fine flying for an old bird like a Hercules!
“Bitchin’ Betty” – she any relation to Connie Rod?
http://www.comicvine.com/sgt-connie-rodd/29-62316/all-images/108-267387/connie_rodd/105-812388/
And an earlier picture of Sgt. Connie – http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRXVX-ipH0vKmbgpt0RHtkNLVXDxXguKOO03tI7Y1CzpYxqyhp8HKjLtKYp
Heh. I just blogged about Connie.
I’m not saying I had a crush on her. But I’m not saying I didn’t…
http://xbradtc.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/mothers-at-war-who-is-connie-rodd/
You too? My mom, who worked at Pendleton as a GS-5 clerk, used to bring them home for me when I was in my early teens.
That’s sweet. I didn’t realize trash haulers could fly like that!
Compare and contrast with the cockpit comms/cooperation of the AF 447 crew…
Nice flying, General.
IMHO, the C-130 is the modern day C-47. They just keep gettin’ better. A good read is “The Long Arm of America” by Martin Caidin. It was written almost 50 years ago and chronicles the development of this amazing airplane.
thanks for the tip. need to add that to my Caidin collection
back in 1965 I was sitting on the veranda of the EM Club at Kindley Field Bermuda.
An AF Reserve C-130-B took off, rotated and then held it over the runway at about 10 foot.
At 10,000 foot he yanked it straight up and flew almost out of sight before heading for the states.
Everyone was screaming and cheering the pilot on.
I’ve seen a P-3 do something like that at U-Tapao, Thailand — on the two inboard engines. Also note this video of Tex Johnson talking about rolling the B-707 prototype.
Some time ago I saw some Navy video, (in B&W), of a C-130 landing on the deck of a carrier, then backing up to just before the ramp and taking off.
Remembering that and then seeing it flown like fighter here has me thinking, “That’s some great airplane”.
That would be Jimmy Flatley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfwJJD5jGXk
I believe the pilot is Lockheed’s chief test pilot, airlift (and a retired Navy captain).
http://flugsicherheit24.at/component/content/article/190.html
As a rule of thumb, Paris Air Show demos use a military aircraft that is leased back to the manufacturer, and flown by the company test pilot.
I do believe Lex once commented on the kerfuffle when the commpany test pilot dumped a government airplane, and didn’t want to pay for it. Hence the leaseback.
The C-130J was the first flight test program I got to work out of school. A/C 5408, I still think about you and the day you tried to kill me.
I see the local RIANG C130Js doing everything but the loop all the time at the local Air show or just when they buzz the local recreational fishing populace
Standing on a rock at night along some semi-desolate coast fishing when one of these puppies scream overtop with their GodLights on… Very cool.
There was a book about the Herc, written years and years ago. In it, the author described and aerobatic team made up of C-130s, called “The Four Horsemen.” That would have been in the late fifties or early sixties, and probably somewhat unofficial. Anybody here know anything about that?
Might you be referring to these fellas? http://aerobaticteams.net/usaf-four-horsemen.html
Yep, I think those those must be the guys. Thanks!
Umm, “an” aerobatic team.
Coincidentally, I am 50% through “The Speed of Light” by Thomas W. Young, about the 167th Airlift Wing of the WVANG (which flew C-130s until 2006 when they were replaced by the C-5 Galaxy.) The book is written as an oral history, by the members of the unit, and follows the wing from 9/11 through the earliest time in Afghanistan and then into early Iraq. The video completely captures my mental vision of the book’s descriptions of evasive landings/takeoffs into and out of dinky, runway-holed “airports” while carrying needed supplies to the ground troops and ferrying out the wounded. Five stars.
Ever seen the U-2 spyplane launch and recover from a carrier?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8HMPMYL19E&feature=related
Never flew a J model, but I’ve got about 15 years in the B, E, and H. Just about the finest multi-engine, multi-mission airplane ever built. I’ve used some of that maneuvering in Alaskan fijords….sometimes a wingover is the only way out.
Gotta have lots of fuel in the wings, though as wing strength is highly dependent on fuel load. The AF lost one back in the 70′s on a training flight with a light fuel load. IP initiated a simullated double engine failure on one side and the stud stomped on the rudder setting up a high lateral G load collapsing the fuel tank bulkheads in the wing and the wing turned to spaghetti. Didn’t end well.
Pretty cool. Although you can’t beat Fat Albert!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9h_pD9wC_k
Reportedly Fat Albert has finally exhausted the last stash of old JATO bottles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiqbVTyCsi0 C-27J at Avalon Airshow, just outside of Melbourne Australia.
Featuring aileron rolls, derry turns, loops, barrel roll… not too shabby.