C-17 Carrier Landing

[Guest Muttling]

On an interesting side note, we actually did put a C-130 on the deck of the USS Forrestal.

Edited November 23, 2009 by Muttling

[buck1032]

LOL. While not nearly as big, watching the old A-3 recover was entertaining and sometimes down right scary.

[Rightwinger]

Cool photo shop. JATOs are only used on take off though.

[Guest Muttling]

Cool photo shop. JATOs are only used on take off though.

Did you check out the video? They got a Herc to take off from a carrier wthout JATOs.

Speaking of which, do we still have JATOs in the arsenal? I haven't heard anyone mention them since the early 90's.

[TNTitan]

remember that guy that strapped JATO to his car and ended up winning a Darwin award?

[Rightwinger]

Yeah, seen the Herc video before. Interesting. They also launched U2s off a carrier. Launch was good, landing was a bouncy mess!

[Reservoir Dog]

That's an awful small C-17. Nice attempt at a bad photoshop.

[Moped]

During the Iranian Hostage Crisis, didn't the plan for the aborted rescue operation call for a landing of C-130's on a carrier on the way out?

[Guest Muttling]

The early plans looked at using C-130's landing at the soccer stadium and having the helicopters drop everyone off there. Then the 130's would use a JATO take off to get out. I don't know where they planned to land.

That idea was scrapped and Rangers with the spport of 3 AC-130's were going to capture a nearby airport where C-141's would evacuate everyone to Egypt. The helicopters were to be left behind with demolition charges.

The C-130's role was to deliver fuel to the refueling point where the major disaster struck. Sadly, the mission had already been given an abort order as they had lost 3 of the 8 helicopters on the way in to mechanical problems and 6 were required.

Edited November 23, 2009 by Muttling

[Mark A]

I think the JATO's are about all gone. I was at a Blue Angels show earlier this year and they mentioned that Fat Albert would have to stop doing the JATO part due to being out of rockets...

Mark