From: Jon Shoop (shoop19@brick.net)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 03:37:13 PST
Yep...if any listers were at Fort Lee last year.....It is a training center
to teach this and other airborne methods of delivery of cargo, and vehicles.
They had a Humvee there, as I remember, an ambulance all packaged up for a
drop.......
Jon
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> Have actually been in a c130 during LAPES.. It's quite freaky when the
load
> shifts and finally drops from the plane.. WOW
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> The "drag it out the back" system is called LAPES: Low Altitude Parachute
> Extraction System.
> Used extensively on C-130's,
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