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Look Ma, No Hook: how a C-130 Hercules managed to land on an aircraft carrier

July 16, 2014 Dario Leone 12

The story of the C-130 Hercules that landed on USS Forrestal Even if, nowadays, the C-2 Greyhound is the biggest transport aircraft designed specifically for carrier operations, on Oct. 30 1963, in an attempt to […]

Flying to/from an aircraft carrier with a C-2 Greyhound

October 27, 2009 David Cenciotti 4

After my recent visit on board the USS Nimitz, many readers of this site asked me to describe a flight on the C-2 Greyhound COD (Carrier On-board Delivery) and in particular the trap landing on […]

Images from the USS Nimitz (CVN-68)

October 23, 2009 David Cenciotti 3

Between Oct. 19 and 20, I had the possibility to spend some 25 hours on board the USS Nimitz nuclear supercarrier. I went to Manama, Bahrain, and after a long flight in a C-2 of […]