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Reply #15 - Jan 9^th, 2005 at 1:19pm

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Actually I believe the Hercules/Carrier event used a stock Herc and had no JATO bottles in use...........Here is a page where you can see it all, including videos

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Reply #16 - Jan 9^th, 2005 at 2:42pm

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Actually I believe the Hercules/Carrier event used a stock Herc and had no JATO bottles in use...........Here is a page where you can see it all, including videos

indeed, you are right. but i'm sure i've seen photos off a C-130 on a carrier which had some boosters attached to the fuselage. maybe they did different tests...

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Reply #17 - Jan 9^th, 2005 at 8:50pm

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Or the fact that the wing will be cut off

Actually, that was the first thing I noticed. lol

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Reply #18 - Jan 10^th, 2005 at 11:10am

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i noticed that and the shadow when the i was shown the picture. but still i took it for granted 8)

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Reply #19 - Mar 23^rd, 2005 at 11:06pm

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i seen the real pic. its landing on dirt in the desert

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Reply #20 - Mar 24^th, 2005 at 6:15pm

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Wow, a U-2 on a carrier. Isn't that call suicide

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Reply #21 - Mar 24^th, 2005 at 7:05pm

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Wow, a U-2 on a carrier. Isn't that call suicide

Apparently not.

http://www.afa.org/magazine/feb2001/0201spyplane.asp

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Modification of U-2s for Aircraft Carrier Deployment
In mid-1963, the Office of Special Activities set in motion Project WHALE TALE to examine the possibility of adapting the U-2 aircraft for operations from an aircraft carrier [sentence deleted by CIA]

CIA planners believed that, if U-2s could be modified to operate from aircraft carriers, the United States could avoid the political problems involved in seeking permission to base U-2s in other nations. Kelly Johnson [lead Lockheed designer] began working on changes to the aircraft, and Office of Special Activities Deputy Director James A. Cunningham, Jr., a former Marine Corps aviator, asked the Navy for assistance.

The first test of the U-2s capability for carrier operations took place in August 1963 from the USS Kitty Hawk operating in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego, California. A U-2C, which had been loaded aboard the carrier at North Island Naval Base, took off from the flight deck with a full load of fuel and was airborne within 321 feet. No assistance from catapults was necessary. Although the takeoff was very successful, the attempted landing was not. The aircraft bounced, hit hard on one wing tip, and then just barely managed to become airborne again before reaching the end of the deck. Kelly Johnson realized that the airframe would have to be altered in order to make carrier landings possible. These alterations involved strengthening the landing gear, installing an arresting hook at the rear of the fuselage, and fitting "spoilers" on the wings to cancel the aerodynamic lift once the aircraft was over the flight deck. Aircraft thus modified were designated U-2G. While several aircraft underwent these modifications, [several words deleted by CIA] pilots began undergoing training in landing on aircraft carriers. The first successful carrier landing took place on 2 March 1964.

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