The Rocket-Powered C-130

Over the years the C-130 Hercules has been the subject of many experiments. From landing on aircraft carriers to retrieving falling film cannisters from spy satellites. However, one of the more prominent experiments was around a rocket powered concept, which was to be used in a hostage rescue operation in the 1980s...

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[Steven-pj]

Love this channel, so much data is never enough.

[kbellanger]

I was with the 109th from NY and was a passenger to Greenland. We took off with the jato rockets.

[AlanToon-fyhg]

About 20 years ago I had the privilege of meeting the Lockheed test co pilot who flew on the failed attempted landing. He had a full version of the crash video which showed him exiting the right front window of the plane after it came to rest.
One of the other aircraft was put on display at the Robins AFB museum, as was shown in your video. I do not know whether it is still there....

[jrbailey]

I would love to have watched this all the way through, but your opening citation of Operation Eagleclaw, commanded by Col. Charlie Beckwith, came too close to home for me. No, I wasn't there, nor involved. One of my key senior year research papers for my B.A. in history was on Operation Eagleclaw, from the inception of the plan to the catastrophic events of Desert One. I studied the declassified documents thereto associated, the key civilian personnel in charge of it, and the horrific limitations they put upon the military personnel charged with carrying out the operation.

Carter's severe hampering of the operation, the micro-management of core aspects to the hardware involved, the training protocols, the time periods given for training, the handicapping of communication requirements, and the abjectly criminal decision by Carter to reject 'in place existing paradigms' for just such operations, in favor of an 'ad hoc' compilation of 'thrown together' groups, is why Operation Eagleclaw failed so horrifically.

The operation failed as a direct result of criminal incompetence by Carter and his Cabinet personnel stripping the military of the established paradigms and groups, which existed for just such operations. The decision by Carter, a former Naval officer who KNEW better than to circumvent existing operational groups and systems, in favor of the ad hoc consortium put together, and not giving them enough training time, proper equipment, proper comm protocols, and number of required aircraft, crew, and backups, is what got all those men dead for no good reason.

Carter and his Cabinet criminals made it worse, by placing the blame on Col. Charlie Beckwith, rather than standing up like men on their hind legs and assuming the responsibility for the failure of both the operation and the loss of lives of those involved in Operation Eagleclaw.

This is the reason why, on the day that Carter dies, I'll pour myself a crystal tumbler of quality bourbon and raise a glass to Colonel Charles Beckwith; saying simply "Finally Charlie, some payback for you and your men."

Cheers from the Oil Patch in Central WY

[Cardinal]

As if this plane couldn't get more american

[PaulRivne]

Коммент на підтримку канала. Дякуємо Збройним Силам України за захист від окупантів!

[PetesGuide]

0:45 RH-53s? I don’t think any -53 had an R at the front.

[camdelaforce]

Copy old mate but what puts me off, your channel states Australian.... yet you appear to be British ... intriguing some what do tell cob, share a yarn.🙃