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Deino

June 04, 2004, 11:51:35 PM
Hi guys !!!

I'm once again searching something strange ... A friend of mine is looking for further information(pictures, drawings, data, ...) regarding "strange" - once proposed - variants of the C-130 !

He mentioned the AEW-Version, the "Floatplane", ... a version with a bigger fuselage (greater diameter) and one with a T-tail !!

Does anyone have some more information, ... esp. links on these "waht-if" projects ???

Thanks in advance, Deino  :wub:  
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Sisko

#1
June 05, 2004, 01:29:28 AM

Hello Denio

I actually have a picture here of a proposed variant of the Herc with a large rotor on top of the fuselage ala  a modern rotodyne.

I will dig it out scan it and post it.

It's kinda funky lookin

:blink:  :blink:  
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#2
June 05, 2004, 01:31:15 AM
QuoteHi guys !!!

I'm once again searching something strange ... A friend of mine is looking for further information(pictures, drawings, data, ...) regarding "strange" - once proposed - variants of the C-130 !

He mentioned the AEW-Version, the "Floatplane", ... a version with a bigger fuselage (greater diameter) and one with a T-tail !!

Does anyone have some more information, ... esp. links on these "waht-if" projects ???

Thanks in advance, Deino  :wub:
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nev

#3
June 05, 2004, 01:54:25 AM
On the old site someone posted a couple of pieces of Lockheed concept art.

One was a floatplane

The other I can't remember, but it was quite wierd IIRC :wacko:

Then there were the videos of the Hercules carrier trials!!! In the 60s the USN did trials landing & taking off C-130s off a carrier deck.  The videos are truly amazing.  I think the plan was to use it as a COD aircraft.  Thats one I'd like to build one day.
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Jschmus

#4
June 05, 2004, 06:01:27 AM
There was also a proposed air-cushion landing system.  I don't know if they actually tested that one, but I have seen concept art of a Herc with a big bladder on the bottom landing on a dirt strip.
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#5
June 05, 2004, 07:22:37 AM
There's a site out there  with a VTOL job that used rockets, it was supposed to take off from inside a football stadium in the middle east or somat. I believe there was  a video of it as well.

I'll dig thru my bookmarks, see if I still have it.

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#6
June 05, 2004, 08:19:11 AM
There was a proposal for a catamaran-hulled version of the C-130J apparently. Not got any info, just what I read. Apparently it was going to be a bolt-on affair with four internal whels for beaching. But I have no idea how practical this was, or whether it was just a rumour. Maybe resident Lockheed bod Evan heard something on the grapevine?

Nick

#7
June 05, 2004, 10:04:14 AM
QuoteThere's a site out there  with a VTOL job that used rockets, it was supposed to take off from inside a football stadium in the middle east or somat. I believe there was  a video of it as well.
The VSTOL C-130 was done for the 1980 rescue of hostages in Iran during Operation Eagle Claw.

http://www.theaviationzone.com/factsheets/c130.asp has the video in question, all done under the codename Operation Credible Sport.

Nick B)  

Joe C-P

#8
June 05, 2004, 05:03:32 PM
I will do a carrier COD version someday. And a floatplane.

I think the rubber-raft version actually was tested, for landing on snow? Mud? Something like that.

JoeP
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#9
June 05, 2004, 07:55:25 PM
QuoteThere was a proposal for a catamaran-hulled version of the C-130J apparently. Not got any info, just what I read. Apparently it was going to be a bolt-on affair with four internal whels for beaching. But I have no idea how practical this was, or whether it was just a rumour. Maybe resident Lockheed bod Evan heard something on the grapevine?
Nope, I sure haven't.  I do remember that the proposed floatplane version would've had the gearboxes inverted and used a lot of the P-3's nacelle.
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elmayerle

#10
June 05, 2004, 07:58:11 PM
Well, one can always do the BAC 222 variant.  There is also one I've seen described only once, in a display at the 1972 Turin Air Show, a v/stol one with four Pegasus.
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#11
June 05, 2004, 08:28:59 PM
About the floatplane C-130J, it srpung out in Air International a little while ago.

I had scanned it, now, if you saved it, find it!

:lol:  

Jschmus

#12
June 06, 2004, 12:34:37 AM
QuoteHello Denio

I actually have a picture here of a proposed variant of the Herc with a large rotor on top of the fuselage ala  a modern rotodyne.

I will dig it out scan it and post it.

It's kinda funky lookin

:blink:  :blink:
I saw that in the new Popular Mechanics.  The project was proposed by Groen Brothers Aviation.  They say they can effect that sort of transformation on any type of aircraft given x hours and their patented rotor system.  Personally, I'd like to see them pull it off with the An-124 seen on the cover.
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Mairfrog

#13
June 08, 2004, 06:23:37 PM
Quotea v/stol one with four Pegasus

Now you're talking! Get that razor saw out already!  B)  :cheers:  B)  

Captain Canada

#14
June 08, 2004, 06:30:00 PM
Quote
QuoteThere's a site out there  with a VTOL job that used rockets, it was supposed to take off from inside a football stadium in the middle east or somat. I believe there was  a video of it as well.
The VSTOL C-130 was done for the 1980 rescue of hostages in Iran during Operation Eagle Claw.

http://www.theaviationzone.com/factsheets/c130.asp has the video in question, all done under the codename Operation Credible Sport.

Nick B)
Woah...is that ever cool !

too bad she was torn apart like that. It was a different vid that I had seen, this one is new to me !

Thanks, Nick !

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