Was this You? Chipmunk Close Call

[Onan the Clumsy]

Re: Was this You? Chipmunk Close Call

According to the link, they did try it with sheep as well

[Out Of Trim]

Re: Was this You? Chipmunk Close Call

I also recall seeing this method used in the John Wayne film "The Green Beret" televised just a few days ago. Set in the Vietnam war era and was used to transport a VC Officer they had captured.

[Onan the Clumsy]

Re: Was this You? Chipmunk Close Call

...unfortunately though he had earlier secreted the incriminating video film inside his rectal passage.




sorry, I keep forgetting I'm not in JetBlast any more

[airsound]

Originally Posted by Kim Il Jong

The Fulton system couldn't have been that classified, I'm sure I saw a demo of this at the Fairford Airshow, must have been early '80s when I think the show had a SAR theme. Back in the USAF organised (well) days.
Mind you I've got an addled brain.

Kim Il - I've just dug out some old commentary notes from International Air Tattoo (Fairford) 1981 (I think). We had a demo from the MC-130 'Blackbird' of the 7th Spec Ops Sqn at Rhein Main. This was the Fulton, as described above, and it worked! Only a dummy though - no volunteers from all the 5000 volunteers who run the IAT.

[Kim Il Jong]

Flippin' eck, my brain can't be as addled as I thought.

[DaveW]

It's not difficult to find pics of the Fulton Recovery system on the Internet. Here are two from just one site:

http://8thattacksqdnassoc.tripod.com...30h_fulton.jpg

http://8thattacksqdnassoc.tripod.com...tonSystema.jpg

As well as the Fairford displays, the system was regularly demonstrated at the Mildenhall airshows from the early 80s onwards.

[movadinkampa747]

Well you may have been foiled this time. Were they in cloud when the photos were taken?

[DaveW]

Dammit - Bloody Internet.

I Googled for "MC-130 Fulton" images and found several, including those. You can see them if you go here.

As the page says, "Long load times. Graphics intensive page due to loading of photos. Please be patient... " - the pics in question are about 3/4 way down the page.

Well OT, but there's also a couple of fine pics of an MC-130 simultaneously refuelling an MH-53 and an MH-47 over Kuwait City on that page also.