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PR19_Kit

Quote from: kitnut617 on March 26, 2015, 08:03:44 AM
Well I've seen a C-17 do a para-drop (when there was a CFB in Calgary), and it did come around and make a few passes to off-load everyone

Did they go out the side doors or off the ramp Robert?

I've seen RAF C-17 do a drop at Weston-on-the Green and they went off the ramp, but it was only a 10-12 man drop, maybe a SpecOps scenario rather than a full on paradrop.
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Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 26, 2015, 09:28:52 AM
Quote from: kitnut617 on March 26, 2015, 08:03:44 AM
Well I've seen a C-17 do a para-drop (when there was a CFB in Calgary), and it did come around and make a few passes to off-load everyone

Did they go out the side doors or off the ramp Robert?


From what I can remember (it was back in the 80's or 90's), they were exiting from both Kit.  And it was an USAF one on a winter exercise up here in Alberta.

At the time, the C-17 wasn't that well known and I couldn't identify it, so I called the YYC office to find out what it was and they told me it was a C-17
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Green Dragon

Saw a landy drop from a Beverly on The Avengers a couple days ago, also drops from a couple of Hastings and some footage of Valiants, Vulcans and Victors in anti-flash white.

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I remember reading about the USAF's first efforts to test the airdropping from the C-5 Galaxy way back in the mid-1980s, as a "response" to the Soviets use of the Il-76.  I rather suspect that they may have had problems assembling the units after the drop had finished as the LZ covered two or more counties...  ;) ;D ;D
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PR19_Kit

There's a tale of a 47 Sqdn Beverley that dropped a Landie and a light gun, the one with the curved trail tubes, which had a main chute failure over Salisbury Plain. The gun went out of the door barrel first and went into the ground in the same alignment, whereupon it stuck there with the rest of the weapon suspended in mid-air! The Landie ended up somewhat flat apparently.....
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajile

This might entertain!!!    Rocket braked air drops.
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PR19_Kit

Quote from: Rheged on March 27, 2015, 03:18:02 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajile

This might entertain!!!    Rocket braked air drops.

;D :lol: Why does that conjure up thoughts of C-130s and rescue attempts in Iran?
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DarrenP2

remember seeing a unit produced heavy drop accidents the number of landrovers that went end over end up the drop zone was interesting. 7 RHA used to have a scrap park of 1 tonners that had had drop limits exceeded

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My first posting as a Controller was to Stornoway, in the Outer Hebrides, where I was a 100% increase in the ATC staff.
The other Controller had been an Air Electronics Officer on Beverleys and he told the story of the first HEAVY drop tests from a Beverley over Salisbury plain.
They used a nice brand new bulldozer.
Unfortunately on the first test the chutes did not open.
They had to go out and buy another one.

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Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 27, 2015, 01:59:30 AM
There's a tale of a 47 Sqdn Beverley that dropped a Landie and a light gun, the one with the curved trail tubes, which had a main chute failure over Salisbury Plain. The gun went out of the door barrel first and went into the ground in the same alignment, whereupon it stuck there with the rest of the weapon suspended in mid-air! The Landie ended up somewhat flat apparently.....

beverley and lightgun weren't in service at same time

PR19_Kit

Quote from: DarrenP2 on March 27, 2015, 05:01:48 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 27, 2015, 01:59:30 AM
There's a tale of a 47 Sqdn Beverley that dropped a Landie and a light gun, the one with the curved trail tubes, which had a main chute failure over Salisbury Plain. The gun went out of the door barrel first and went into the ground in the same alignment, whereupon it stuck there with the rest of the weapon suspended in mid-air! The Landie ended up somewhat flat apparently.....

beverley and lightgun weren't in service at same time

What sort of gun could it have been? I can't find any pics of it or it might have been easier to identify it.
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Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

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17- or 25-pounder, perhaps, or maybe an American M1/M116 Pack Howitzer. They were apparently used by airborne forces up to the end of the '50s..?
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Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 27, 2015, 05:21:55 PM
Quote from: DarrenP2 on March 27, 2015, 05:01:48 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 27, 2015, 01:59:30 AM
There's a tale of a 47 Sqdn Beverley that dropped a Landie and a light gun, the one with the curved trail tubes, which had a main chute failure over Salisbury Plain. The gun went out of the door barrel first and went into the ground in the same alignment, whereupon it stuck there with the rest of the weapon suspended in mid-air! The Landie ended up somewhat flat apparently.....

beverley and lightgun weren't in service at same time

What sort of gun could it have been? I can't find any pics of it or it might have been easier to identify it.

Sounds like the light 105mm gun
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Quote from: Green Dragon on March 26, 2015, 05:41:02 PM
Saw a landy drop from a Beverly on The Avengers a couple days ago, also drops from a couple of Hastings and some footage of Valiants, Vulcans and Victors in anti-flash white.

Paul Harrison

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