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LC-130 air spring pressure check - USAF photo/TSGT K. Jackson
Master Sgt. Joseph Sinatra checks the air spring pressure on an LC-130 Hercules during a stop Oct. 18, 2010, at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. The springs are used to absorb the shock of landing the ski-equipped aircraft on the Antarctic ice. Sergeant Sinatra and the rest of his LC-130 aircrew stopped at Hickam while en route to Antarctica to support Operation Deep Freeze, the Defense Department’s logistical support to U.S. research activities at the southernmost continent. Sergeant Sinatra is an LC-130 crew chief assigned to the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing at Stratton Air National Guard Base, N.Y. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Kerry Jackson). US Air Force Link (www.af.mil) courtesy
LC-130 taking off with JATO from Greenland - Photo © Søren Wedel Nielsen (Copyright 2005)
Airspeed – VIDEO – JATO Ride in Fat Albert from Steve Tupper on Vimeo.
Here’s video from the JATO ride in the US Navy Blue Angels’ C-130, Fat Albert, from the Indianapolis Airshow 6 June 2009. www.indyairshow.com. www.airspeedonline.com.
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YOU CAN READ THIS VIDEO’S SCRIPT HERE. You can read the cockpit voice recording transcript HERE
Remember, a Dutch Cougar helicopter was already rescued by a Russian Mi-26 in Afghanistan near Kandahar in December 2009:
