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https://x.com/buzzpatterson/status/1878864630707294417?s=61&t=wvMUJkiaXIInhx71fKgtyw

Holy crap. 

But, I did think you were going to mention the almost mid-air collision yesterday.

https://6abc.com/post/faa-investigating-midair-collision-between-united-delta-planes-phoenix-airport/15798640/

Wow is right.

Gotta be an ex C-130 pilot. I had a friend that was a load master on a 130 and he told me once that they were doing training landing on runways cut out of strips of wooded areas and when they came in for a landing he was standing in the cockpit door and swore they were going to hit the trees but they touched down and went to the end of the runway and turned around. He said when he looked at the length of the runway and the height of the trees at the end he got scared. He said he told the pilots "there's no way man, just no way" and they laughed and said "here we go". He said they were bouncing down the strip and the trees were getting closer and growing taller and his balls were drawing up into his stomach. He said he began to think the pilot were never going to pull up and just when it seemed it was too late the pilot pulled up and he watched the top of the trees seemingly hit the nose of the aircraft. He said he said a prayer of thanks and then congratulated the pilot. When they landed at base he said he checked the aircraft and found several branches in the landing gear.   :naughty: :dielaughing:     :crazy:      :patriot:   :powert:

He should have been flying on the Credible Sport aircraft
Ground roll of nose gear 6 feet
Then proved that a C-130 can hover, for about a second

https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWings/comments/jjo878/1980_october_28_demonstration_flight_of_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_butto (https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWings/comments/jjo878/1980_october_28_demonstration_flight_of_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_butto)

It also had a C-141 flap system installed
Huge on a C-130
Big beam running through the cargo compartment
When you  wen past 50& flaps you were committed to hit earth.  You were so far on the back side of the power curve 100& you could not retract them fast enough to keep flying

As to the ioncident, a few points:
Everybody survived it, including 4 good friends
There were two main courses of thought as toi the cause: System error or operater error
I have thoughts ...

Somr wsdditional info:
There were 3 64 tails set aside for the program
The one in the video was ship #2, the only one to be fully modified and tested
Ship 3 was put into storage and evetually was planned to be a YMC-130H for the MC-130H program with update suite of CS aero mods, till it was determined that the cost for this one aircraft would have equaled or been greater than the remaining fleet costs so it went to the Warner Robins mudeum and then years later scrapped
Also, in a laughable deal, the "YMC-130H" wannabe was a C-130E and the entire MC-130H fleet were C-130H2s (as were the AC-130Us), more than a slight difference
Some other fun notes:
The Combat Talon 1 aircraft were heavily modified C-130Es (mostly 64 tails)
The AC-130Hs were also C-130Es (69 tails) but were redesignated AC-130Hs after they had C-130H -16 engines installed (as did the Talon 1s   ...)