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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
The first time I was old enough to really understand airplanes and I saw a C-130 I wondered why the tail was so cut off on the rear. Then I saw one rotate for takeoff, and I understood. As an airshow at Maxwell AFB in 1976 for the bicentennial they had a C-130 do a full rocket assisted takeoff. And takeoff it did, wow that thing got moving fast.
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It is neat to watch. I have seen the Blue Angels a few times and the JATO take-off by Fat Albert is great.
I flew from Pt. Mugu NAS to New Zealand in a C-130. A friend of mine was a pilot at VXE-6 and I took some leave to hopefully get on the Antarctic ice.
A bit about VXE-6:
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/vxe-6.htm
As much as I loved the C-130, that is a long way to go at around 300kts!
We made it to Christchurch, NZ but the weather was awful on the ice so I flew back to San Diego commercially.
Even steerage felt great!