STOL C-130

[phansett]

I hadn’t seen this story before and I thought I’d share. I’m sure many of you have more details.

https://x.com/defence_index/status/20036...Sff6UA0MuQ

[Maxmars]

It may have failed, but they had the right idea.

Thanks for bringing this here.

[BeyondKnowledge]

It landed and fully stopped with no lift engines 30 feet up. It actually fell that 30 feet straight down. That is why they canceled it.

They also did experimental aircraft carrier landings with a C-130. They decided it was too dangerous though.

[Zaphod58]

It landed and fully stopped with no lift engines 30 feet up. It actually fell that 30 feet straight down. That is why they canceled it.

They also did experimental aircraft carrier landings with a C-130. They decided it was too dangerous though.

The carrier trials were for it to be their new COD. They didn't go ahead with it because it took up too much space on deck, and couldn't be taken below decks, so they had to stop flight ops and completely clear the deck while it was operating. It could land with max load, and take off with it again, but they needed something they could keep on the ship, and didn't have to completely clear the carrier to operate.

[Avicula]

It landed and fully stopped with no lift engines 30 feet up. It actually fell that 30 feet straight down. That is why they canceled it.

They also did experimental aircraft carrier landings with a C-130. They decided it was too dangerous though.

If memory serves, Credible Sport crashed after the pilot decided at the last second to revert to manual control as he was on final approach to land. He zigged when he should have zagged and the end result was a burning heap of rubble. Dude was lucky he didn’t kill himself in the process.

[Zaphod58]

If memory serves, Credible Sport crashed after the pilot decided at the last second to revert to manual control as he was on final approach to land. He zigged when he should have zagged and the end result was a burning heap of rubble. Dude was lucky he didn’t kill himself in the process.

Credible Sport gets major points for style, but zero points for execution.

[Avicula]

“OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah?”
~ Galactic President Zaphod Beeblebrox, HHG2TG

I think it’s time we give it another go, just to say we did it. Only this time, we go big or we go home.

I want an A400M. I want 25 SM-6 rocket motors fore and 25 aft and 6 per wing to control yaw. Oh. And the A-400M has to be a gunship. Im gonna need a 155mm cannon strapped down in back (just roll in an Archer and tie it down), a pair of 50mm XM1204s in front of the 155, and a pair of GAU-12s up front. If they want to strap on a few pallets of Brimstones to the outer wings, that’s cool with me. 

All I ask is that they let me ride along and light the fuses on the rockets. I assume they are still manually lit per my childhood exposure to ACME rockets as used by Wile E Coyote?

[Blackfingers]

Didnt Fat Albert use RATOFF on displays in the old days?

[Zaphod58]

Didnt Fat Albert use RATOFF on displays in the old days?

Up until about the early 00s. They found the remaining bottles were unsafe, so ended the display.

[Blackfingers]

Pity was cool but yeah would have been hell on the airframe as well.