This may be why the workplace safety videos insist ladders extend 3 (?) feet above the top. I don't get on ladders. Too many relatives have been hospitalized or died from falling off them.
#7 - I have a US Marine Vietnam veteran buddy who had a bunker at the end of the runway at the Khe Sahn combat base in 1968. A C-130 came in low and unloaded a few pallets of rations just like this video. The pallets kept their forward motion after the plane flew away and the pallets crashed into his bunker...destroying it. Luckily, he was not inside.
It's called LAPES - Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System - a neat system for offloading properly palleted cargo very quickly, be they MREs, ammo, Hummers, IFVs, and with some of the larger cargo aircraft, tanks like the M1 Abrams.
My niece served in Afghanistan and she took a few pictures and videos of LAPES cargo drops near the village where she served as a liaison with the village women.
I was a Rifle Platoon Leader in the 82nd Airborne, and a buddy was a Tank Platoon leader in the division, which operated the M551 Sheridan, the thing you see emerging from the ass of the C-130.
He said that they lost 1 out of every 5 they deployed by LAPES. There's nothing like seeing LAPES or heavy drop failures on the drop zone.
On youtube there is a clip called accidents and airdrops which is all kinds of LAPES "accidents". My daughter and I used to watch it together when she was 4. It was really funny.
#7 - You want to see something fly out of the back of an airplane check out the C-5 Galaxy Minuteman ICBM launch. They only lit the first stage of the missile but it worked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr2_cKfr8Sk
In 1969 a friend of mine had a little accident with a LAPES practice drop. The reefing line knot came undone and extracted the two extraction 'chutes a mile or so short of the runway. Load came out at a couple hundred feet up and with only the extraction 'chutes to fight gravity. Gravity won. Very messy crater in a field of soybeans. Lt. had us get it with ATV fork lift and a flatbed. Ruined a few acres more of soybeans.
#2 -- That's what those ladder stabilizers are really good at. You just hook that over the edge and that can't happen.
#3 -- Happened to a cousin. She fell and got treadmill rash all down her legs, and it took her about a minute of jumping and shouting/cursing before she realized that in addition to the abrasions, it pulled her shorts off, and she was standing there in front of everyone naked from the waist down.
#7 LAPES drop from a C-130. Stopped doing them after last crash in 1987. I was a Parachute Rigger w/ the 82nd Airborne 1995-98 and knew a couple guys who where there that day.
Very dangerous under perfect conditions. We watched many films of the 1987 crash and others including lots of jumper deaths due to various malfunctions. Then one day after packing many parachutes and unpacking them they tell you to pack it and put it on. Outside the pack shed that had free helicopter rides for the test. I passed
A friend of mine earned his Combat Jump Wings in the first wave going into Grenada and I wonder if anyone is ever going to earn those again. Not a lot of paratrooper action anymore these days.
I believe 3/75 did a jump to seize the Kandahar airfield, but I don’t think it was very much of a contested landing. I think the last major forcible entry combat jump was at Rio Hato during Operation Just Cause.
I watched an M-551 Sheridan slide right into the trees at Sicily DZ. 1984. LMAO The crew was in tears because even scrub pine is hard if you hit it at 125 MPH. The vehicle did not survive.
#2 - It may sound redundant, but they say that you should always have someone on the bottom of the ladder holding on.
ReplyDeleteThis may be why the workplace safety videos insist ladders extend 3 (?) feet above the top. I don't get on ladders. Too many relatives have been hospitalized or died from falling off them.
DeleteA crane that "folds" to me is a like fighter planes with wings that do the same.... uh NO.
ReplyDeleteThey all fold... one way or another.
Delete#7 - I have a US Marine Vietnam veteran buddy who had a bunker at the end of the runway at the Khe Sahn combat base in 1968. A C-130 came in low and unloaded a few pallets of rations just like this video. The pallets kept their forward motion after the plane flew away and the pallets crashed into his bunker...destroying it. Luckily, he was not inside.
ReplyDeleteIt's called LAPES - Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System - a neat system for offloading properly palleted cargo very quickly, be they MREs, ammo, Hummers, IFVs, and with some of the larger cargo aircraft, tanks like the M1 Abrams.
DeleteMy niece served in Afghanistan and she took a few pictures and videos of LAPES cargo drops near the village where she served as a liaison with the village women.
I was a Rifle Platoon Leader in the 82nd Airborne, and a buddy was a Tank Platoon leader in the division, which operated the M551 Sheridan, the thing you see emerging from the ass of the C-130.
DeleteHe said that they lost 1 out of every 5 they deployed by LAPES. There's nothing like seeing LAPES or heavy drop failures on the drop zone.
Most of the C130 losses in the CF have been from LAPES executions. Not for the faint of heart, for sure.
DeleteMike in Canada
On youtube there is a clip called accidents and airdrops which is all kinds of LAPES "accidents". My daughter and I used to watch it together when she was 4. It was really funny.
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ReplyDelete#3 - Selfie girl appears to be amused.
#6 - Say 'when'.
#7 - The Miralax is working.
#7 - You want to see something fly out of the back of an airplane check out the C-5 Galaxy Minuteman ICBM launch. They only lit the first stage of the missile but it worked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr2_cKfr8Sk
ReplyDeleteWhat's the critter in number 8?
ReplyDeleteRabid squirrel looking for nuts.
Deleteferret, most likely his pet....drop some ribs, seriously, comeon man....
DeleteIn 1969 a friend of mine had a little accident with a LAPES practice drop. The reefing line knot came undone and extracted the two extraction 'chutes a mile or so short of the runway. Load came out at a couple hundred feet up and with only the extraction 'chutes to fight gravity. Gravity won. Very messy crater in a field of soybeans. Lt. had us get it with ATV fork lift and a flatbed. Ruined a few acres more of soybeans.
Delete#4 rotator cuff surgery for sure dumb ass
ReplyDelete#6 stop pouring my food out. It's you that needs the diet
#2 -- That's what those ladder stabilizers are really good at. You just hook that over the edge and that can't happen.
ReplyDelete#3 -- Happened to a cousin. She fell and got treadmill rash all down her legs, and it took her about a minute of jumping and shouting/cursing before she realized that in addition to the abrasions, it pulled her shorts off, and she was standing there in front of everyone naked from the waist down.
#7 LAPES (Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System) at the VIP stands, Sicily drop zone, Ft Bragg, early 70’s. Looked routine to me.
ReplyDelete#7 LAPES drop from a C-130. Stopped doing them after last crash in 1987. I was a Parachute Rigger w/ the 82nd Airborne 1995-98 and knew a couple guys who where there that day.
ReplyDeleteVery dangerous under perfect conditions. We watched many films of the 1987 crash and others including lots of jumper deaths due to various malfunctions. Then one day after packing many parachutes and unpacking them they tell you to pack it and put it on. Outside the pack shed that had free helicopter rides for the test. I passed
A friend of mine earned his Combat Jump Wings in the first wave going into Grenada and I wonder if anyone is ever going to earn those again. Not a lot of paratrooper action anymore these days.
DeleteI believe 3/75 did a jump to seize the Kandahar airfield, but I don’t think it was very much of a contested landing. I think the last major forcible entry combat jump was at Rio Hato during Operation Just Cause.
DeleteOne of my Drill Sgt.s at basic had the gold star wings (Combat Jump). One of only a few I remember seeing.
DeleteI watched an M-551 Sheridan slide right into the trees at Sicily DZ. 1984. LMAO The crew was in tears because even scrub pine is hard if you hit it at 125 MPH. The vehicle did not survive.
ReplyDeleteI watched an M-551 Sheridan slide into the trees on Sicily DZ in 1984. LMAO.
ReplyDelete#3 should have had her pants come off.
ReplyDelete#5 - I was waiting for a happy ending.
#1) A "post-nut" crane...shrinking it down and getting ready to take a nap.
ReplyDelete#2: Good way to break your leg.
ReplyDelete#4: Genius at work. Possible cracked skull, definite wrecked shoulder..
#5: Where's a pothole when you need one?
#7: The Biden administration responding to reports of a conservative parent at a PTA meeting.