Friday, January 28, 2011

C-130 cargo offload

Loadmasters and crew supervising fork lift unloading of cargo pallet from rear of C-130. You can see rollers on floor of cargo area on which the pallets could be easily moved and locked in place. Occasionally when landing at “hot” airfields the rear cargo doors would be opened and pallets unlocked … the aircraft would then accelerate while taxiing allowing the pallets to slide out back of plane onto the taxiway. This could be down very quickly allowing for a moving, engines-running offload followed by immediate takeoff … depriving nearby enemy of an easy target on the ground. Vietnam 1972.

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