From: jeep (Jeep@mountain.net)
Date: Tue Mar 12 2002 - 06:15:27 PST
I worked on some radio equipment usually mounted on a 1028. I have it on
good athourity (one of the guys I was wotking with) that serial #001 was
drug out of a C130 on a platform with a chute at Warner Robyns AFB with
similar results. we talked about it in 1979...
At 04:43 AM 3/12/02 -0600, you wrote:
>The posts on this brought to mind that in 1965 U. S. Army was hold training
>maneuvers from old WWII training base in Ark I worked on. The loaded cargo
>in planes and flew to Springfield Mo. where the maneuvers were being held
>and dropped to troops on ground. Among the many things that were dropped
>were some backhoes, and trucks, along with ammo crates filled with rocks and
>other stuff. The vehicles were brought back to the base to our place to
>load on train and take back where they came from -- I saw backhoe and M35 (I
>think was M35) that had been dropped and chute did not open. Have no idea
>how fast they were going but when they hauled them back here were big OD
>balls of steel with tires embedded in them.
>
>I do not know enough about air planes to know what they used but put the
>stuff on big pallet looking platforms and deployed chutes that drug them out
>the back of plane. I understand that there is a limit on how fast stuff
>will fall, I am sure that whatever this limit is these things quickly
>reached that speed when chute did not open.
>
>
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