c-130 hercules lands on aircraft carrier

that was wildly awesome that the navy did this historic test to land a marine KC-130 on aircraft carrier Forrestal.

I'm sad that the carrier Forrestal (yes that ship McCain was stationed on) was scrapped in 2014. there were attempts to preserve it which failed.

fyi, USS Forrestal's nickname was USS Zippo.


the KC-130 that took part in the test was retired in 2003 and is at the Naval Aviation Museum.

Norfolk Shipyard CO Is 4th Navy Leader to Be Fired in a Month


https://www.military.com/daily-news/...red-month.html

He was one of the first five engineering duty officers to volunteer for an Operation Iraqi Freedom assignment, the bio states. Torkelson traveled throughout 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces, where he rebuilt the country's military bases alongside local officials, according to his bio.

His personal awards include the Bronze Star, Meritorious Service, Navy Commendation and Navy Achievement Medals.

Torkelson is at least the fourth Navy leader to be relieved of command in the last month due to a loss of confidence.

China's Navy Is Building Ships Faster Than It Can Name Them


https://nationalinterest.org/blog/re...me-them-169197

Li Daguang, a professor at the National Defense University of the PLA, told the Global Times that “the naming issue reflects the rapid development of the PLA Navy in recent years. While new destroyers might have to use names of big cities other than provincial capitals, older destroyers that use provincial capital names might be decommissioned in the future and their names could be used again on newer ships.”

America wants more ships and fewer sailors to compete with China’s navy


https://www.economist.com/united-sta...th-chinas-navy

THE SEA HUNTER is a sleek grey trimaran that cuts through the water at 27 knots, capable of sailing from San Diego to Tokyo, and back again, on a single tank of diesel—all by itself. The ship is an “autonomous unmanned surface vehicle”—a fancy name for a sailing drone—operated by America’s navy. The air conditioning on board is for the benefit of computers, rather than humans. The design pays little heed to habitability. “I'm on a ship that looks like a Klingon bird of prey,” remarked Robert Work, America’s then deputy secretary of defence, when visiting the ship in 2016. Earlier this month Sea Hunter spent time with the USS Russell, a more traditional destroyer, practising “manned-unmanned teaming”. The idea is that such double acts are the future of naval warfare.

e9500, you're off topic.


what does a firing and china running out of names for their ships and US Navy wanting more ship with fewer sailors have anything to do with the c-130 aircraft carrier test?

this has been done before. The Doolittle Raid

A man does not need a reason to glorify the C-130. Nor a woman. It's post is justified from its work at Khe Sahn to Baghdad. Here's a drink to the Herk. even on a ship.

this has been done before. The Doolittle Raid





Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

non of the b-25 landed on the carrier.


the c-130 landed and took off from a carrier.

The C 130 took off and landed more than once. This feat was a feature of an episode of JAG.

e9500, you're off topic.


what does a firing and china running out of names for their ships and US Navy wanting more ship with fewer sailors have anything to do with the c-130 aircraft carrier test? Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

A firing? Plural!

I'M off topic? This shit belongs in the litterbox! What does this have to do with politics? I'm trying to keep it to the category of this forum.

Wagging the dog? Or readiness for real world situations?

9500- mushrooms - 'nuff said!

The C 130 took off and landed more than once. This feat was a feature of an episode of JAG. Originally Posted by the_real_Barleycorn

yes. the KC-130 took off and landed 19 to 21 times with increasing payloads from 85,000 to 120,000 #s.

A firing? Plural!

I'M off topic? This shit belongs in the litterbox! What does this have to do with politics? I'm trying to keep it to the category of this forum.

Wagging the dog? Or readiness for real world situations? Originally Posted by eccieuser9500

lay off the muchroooms. its obvious it got you wonky.

Or, is it a combination of two carbon fragment liquids and mushrooms???

non of the b-25 landed on the carrier.


the c-130 landed and took off from a carrier. Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

No. they were loaded onto the Hornet by crane. regardless, it was still considered impossible for a B-25 to take off from that short of runway. Doolittle proved it could be done by holding the brakes and revving up the engines to full throttle then letting the brakes off. Doolittle went first and had less than 500 feet to make it and he did. the last few planes had it easy .. sort of.


the surviving raiders which was most of them held a reunion almost every year after the war until 2013


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid


Last surviving airmen

Col. Bill Bower, the last surviving Doolittle raider aircraft commander, died on 10 January 2011 at age 93 in Boulder, Colorado.[85][86]
Lt. Col. Edward Saylor, the then-enlisted engineer/gunner of aircraft No. 15 during the raid, died 28 January 2015 of natural causes at his home in Sumner, Washington, at the age of 94.[87]
Lt. Col. Robert L. Hite, co-pilot of aircraft No. 16, died at a nursing home in Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of 95 on 29 March 2015.[88][89][90] Hite was the last living prisoner of the Doolittle Raid.
S/Sgt. David J. Thatcher, gunner of aircraft No. 7, died on 22 June 2016 in Missoula, Montana, at the age of 94.
Lt Col. Richard E. Cole, Doolittle's copilot in aircraft No. 1, was the last surviving Doolittle Raider[91] and the only one to live to an older age than Doolittle, who died in 1993 at age 96.[92] Cole was the only Raider still alive when the wreckage of Hornet was found in late January 2019 by the research vessel Petrel at a depth of more than 17,000 feet (5,200 m) off the Solomon Islands.[93] Cole died 9 April 2019, at the age of 103.[94]



1992 the Navy did a reenactment on the USS Ranger. Gen Doolittle was there to watch a flyby afterward by 8 B-25's.


Doolittle Raiders re-enactment


On 21 April 1992, in conjunction with other Department of Defense World War II 50th-Anniversary Commemorative Events, two B-25 Mitchell bombers, B-25J Heavenly Body and B-25J In The Mood, were hoisted aboard USS Ranger. The bombers participated in a commemorative re-enactment of the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, taking off from Ranger's flight deck before over 1,500 guests.[97] The launch took place off the coast of San Diego.[98] Four B-25s were approved by the US Navy for the reenactment with two selected. The other two participants were B-25J Executive Sweet and B-25J Pacific Princess. Following the launch, eight B-25s flew up the coast where General Doolittle and his son John P. Doolittle watched as each B-25 came in for a low pass, dropping 250 red, white, and blue carnations into the surf, concluding the event.

Thank you - TWK - accurate. Takeoff of the B-25's was also enabled by the carriers course at max speed into a head wind - providing 'relative airspeed" and lift for takeoff.

The short takeoffs were practiced at Eglin Field in Valparaiso, Florida.
https://b-25history.org/doolittle/training.htm


James Doolittle won the Medal of Honor for his work on developing and leading the raid on Tokyo!