Our dad fought/flew in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. In the 1960s, before he went to Vietnam, he flew the C-130 Hercules often. As an Air Force Colonel, he could do things others might not. There were more than a few times where he was coming home, and he seemed to fly the Hercules a little lower, not too low mind you, but he would fly lower and throttle the engines loudly. My six brothers and sisters and I would all run out into the front yard, wave and cheer. Dad was coming home! Almost like clockwork, two hours later, he would drive into our driveway. Even though he was shot down in Vietnam, the good guys reached him first, and he returned to us. Retired from the Air Force, and ran his own business. He always said that the real heroes are the ones who did not come back. He had a drawer full of medals, and all he would say is that he was lucky.
I LOVE C-130's, ESPECIALLY the older H models with the GOOD OLD 4 bladed paddleprops!!! They sound HELLA LOUD when at cruise altitude, vibrating my WHOLE house sometimes!!!!
Two things I noticed. First it looks just like an eagle flying especially from the distance. Second is that thing can turn on a dime which is really impressive for a plane that size
I flew C-130's for the Air Force during the Iraq war in 2003. In Iraq we would find a less populated place away from towns and spiral down from around 10 thousand feet. The whole time building up airspeed and energy. Then proceed full speed towards the airfield at tree top level. Once close to the airfield we would pop up, start milking the flaps down to slow down, then throw the gear down and land. It was better than a roller coaster. We did this over and over again every single day and sometime multiple landings a day.
So you'd pop up, at which point you and your shite box of a plane would be a sitting duck for enemy fire. Course you were fighting a bunch of tardy camel jockeys so no problem. Try that fighting a real enemy force.
130's are just fun to run. Most people are amazed by the stuff you can do in that aircraft, they have the usual airliner flight profile in mind. Loved my years in AFSOC!
I live only about 10 miles from where this took place. Highway 63 at Bono, Arkansas. It was announced in the local media there would be a detour for the highway 63 traffic down the old 63 highway that goes through Bono. They are supposed to do it again. The story given to the media was this was a training exercise for landing supplies in case of a New Madrid earthquake if the airports are destroyed....yeah, right. There are two old world war two air strips close by, one at Walnut Ridge and the other at Newport that could have been used. Something just does not add up. This was the talk of the town in Jonesboro this past Sunday morning.
@@SansVarnic I spent 10 years in the army and we never did anything like this. I try not to read too much into things and I know the military has to train but I also don't see why they did it where they did. Of course, a C-130 can land and take off on a short landing strip. That's what they are designed for. I think this was a demonstration to the public of where they can land as much as it was training. I want to drive over where it landed and see what it did to the highway, if it hurt the surface any at all.
@@manofreedom- I also live about 10 minutes away from where they landed. My immediate thoughts when the News Media was reporting it was going to happen was WHY on 63? This doesn’t make sense, especially “if” it was for an Emergency like an Earthquake. The Military would use Helicopters to fly in equipment/supplies because the Roads would certainly be affected by an Earthquake. Secondly, why was one of the planes an AC-130 Gunship? They do NOT bring in supplies. There’s even a video here on YT by a Military channel showing the AC-130 Gunship landing…
@@strumbum946 My thoughts exactly. I went to a symposium at West Memphis a few years ago about the post earthquake emergency response and the DOT, USGS, DOD, Birlington Northern, Entergy, and gas/oil reps were talking about the aftermath of another New Madrid quake. There wouldn't be a highway system stable for a C-130 to land on. We would be on our own for a minimum of three months with no outside help and the grid would be down from the Appilachians to the Rockies, From Chicago to the Gulf. All interstate bridges and highway would be out. So this "exercise" made no sense.
Just a friendly FYI, some of you may want to do a little research into the Defense Highway Act of 1941, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 and the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. Also, look into the (often misrepresented) 1-in-5 mile rule.
I was in the Aerial Port Squadron at the 433rd in Texas and I rode on C-130's on assault landings many times. It was a cool ride and enjoyed every minuet of it, safest plane I ever rode on.
I see the same tinfoil hat people that freak out every single spring when guard and reserve units are coming to their yearly annual training also freaking out over this
One of the planes that landed was an AC-130 Gunship. The one landing with the lights on. Living 10 minutes away this site, I am still very curious as to why a “gunship” would land on a State Highway… 🤔
It is called "probing." They learned during covid that the vast majority of people are sheep. This exercise is intended to start teaching the sheep to kneel.
It was already at the base (friend saw it come in along with the Wolfhound). It was just a big training exercise. They have to be able to land on small “improvised” runways as well. Nothing more to it.
they could almost land on that building, saw them land on psc temp steel panels in unbelievable short distances, there was only one that had crashed past the end of the steel, not sure if it was in asua valley or anybody else see that strip, we were up on the big hill west? of there in the 155 Arty's, never knew the name of the hill, up above us we were told was part of the ho Chee min ? trail, we blasted the well out of it most every night and some days, was awesome watching the dusters at night when they could free fire on it, made fourth of July seem tame, if any brother remembers seeing the strip down in the valley (a resupplying point) drop us a line, I've tried to remember the hill/firebase name since 1970, yeah im old
That is true. But what was the wind speed over the deck with the carrier doing 30 knots into the wind? We used to land on PSP 2500-2800 foot air strips with our C-130B models in Vietnam. Ex C-130B loadmaster.
@@stephenp8086 I don't know what the total wind speed was during those tests, but I'm quite sure it was AT LEAST the 30+ knots the Forestal would have been making at the time. Yes, I have some idea how much help that is - full load takeoff on the older KC-130 models would have been more like 4000 feet, not the 600 or less feet they needed (and I don't think they used RATO on most of the later parts of the testing, despite the loadout). For perspective, a WWII era Storch would have been pretending to be a helocopter with THAT much headwind - and doing quite a good job of it.
@@OneWildTurkey Interstate highways are designed to handle being used as emergency runways for use in wartime in an invasion scenario. LONG standing law requiring that, goes back to the original National Defense and Interstate Highway Act of 1956 that authorized the original parts of the Interstate system. The PRIMARY intended usage was to speed transportation of defense-related material through the US, but there were secondary intended uses built into the act. Same law also put limits on how close bridges can be over Interstates, though more recent versions of the law has allowed for exemptions in high pop density areas (cities for the most part, sometimes clusters like NE Indiana near Chicago). Note that a C-130 isn't much if any higher density of load per square inch than a full-loaded semi truck. Something like a C5 *might* be more of an issue, fighter/bombers less of one. There would also be a LOT fewer aircraft using the road as an "emergency landing strip" than the number of semi's that transverse it in a day.
They practice in the CONUS because that's where the equipment & crews are. There are Highways everywhere in the world, including Europe. I can see this as training in case USAF gets called on for hot deliveries into/around Ukraine should that situation escalate further. Depending on where they stage from and flight time, hot refueling (even reloading ammo in the case of a Spooky) can be done right on the highway from trucks (that also stay mobile).
I live only about 10 miles from where this took place. Highway 63 at Bono Arkansas. Rumor is that the army is going to do it again but with live fire exercise. BUT, that's just the rumor. This was the talk of Jonesboro this past Sunday morning. It was hush-hush in the news.
that wasn't just a landing; it's come to be called a "Sarajevo approach." a combat approach designed to avoid ground fire. frightening to see in CONUS- evil times ahead.
@@vernonslone8627 that's why I used quotations around Sarajevo and then specifically stated "combat approach". it probably predates Vietnam even. the Germans tried to supply their forces around Stalingrad by air.
The " cork screw" entry into a hot zone, or VIPs into a unsecured area is impressive at night no landing lights on air craft or landing area.
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The flaw in their thinking is that the one place that will be the most clogged with people and cars and trucks in the event of war would be the highways 😢
This training was done with a earthquake in mind but it wouldn’t take very long for a front and loader to clear the road of all the cars if there was any there
@@tzazarizona2676 Good point! Which Btw, I searched the internet & found a whole bunch of stories about yes, an exercise. C-130s landing on hwy near Bono, AR. They were landing the planes on the hwy & taking off as part of exercise in case there's a bad earthquake in the New Madrid, MO area. Just goes to show, if something doesn't look or sound right, the info. is out there on the web somewhere. Have a nice day tzaz & stay safe in AZ.
I see the same tinfoil hat people that freak out every spring when the guard and reserve go to do their yearly annual training are freaking out over this at least they’re consistent
@@theroller5673 the one I didn’t take you know there’s a difference between being cautious and being stupid…… personally I think a rock has more cognitive ability than you do either that or you need to get back on the meds
I see the same tinfoil hat people that freak out every spring when the guard and reserve go to do their yearly annual training are freaking out over this….. at least they’re consistent*
I rode on many of these aircraft in the Army.. these combat landings are a trip, you must have faith in the military pilots 😎🇺🇸
The first time I saw one of those, I thought he was crashing.
Our dad fought/flew in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. In the 1960s, before he went to Vietnam, he flew the C-130 Hercules often. As an Air Force Colonel, he could do things others might not. There were more than a few times where he was coming home, and he seemed to fly the Hercules a little lower, not too low mind you, but he would fly lower and throttle the engines loudly. My six brothers and sisters and I would all run out into the front yard, wave and cheer. Dad was coming home! Almost like clockwork, two hours later, he would drive into our driveway. Even though he was shot down in Vietnam, the good guys reached him first, and he returned to us. Retired from the Air Force, and ran his own business. He always said that the real heroes are the ones who did not come back. He had a drawer full of medals, and all he would say is that he was lucky.
I LOVE C-130's, ESPECIALLY the older H models with the GOOD OLD 4 bladed paddleprops!!! They sound HELLA LOUD when at cruise altitude, vibrating my WHOLE house sometimes!!!!
Two things I noticed. First it looks just like an eagle flying especially from the distance. Second is that thing can turn on a dime which is really impressive for a plane that size
I flew C-130's for the Air Force during the Iraq war in 2003. In Iraq we would find a less populated place away from towns and spiral down from around 10 thousand feet. The whole time building up airspeed and energy. Then proceed full speed towards the airfield at tree top level. Once close to the airfield we would pop up, start milking the flaps down to slow down, then throw the gear down and land. It was better than a roller coaster. We did this over and over again every single day and sometime multiple landings a day.
Sure, you did but your profile says otherwise.
@@flycatchful yeah ok 👍.
So you'd pop up, at which point you and your shite box of a plane would be a sitting duck for enemy fire. Course you were fighting a bunch of tardy camel jockeys so no problem. Try that fighting a real enemy force.
130's are just fun to run. Most people are amazed by the stuff you can do in that aircraft, they have the usual airliner flight profile in mind. Loved my years in AFSOC!
@@flycatchful What is your problem here? Don't like pilots?
The people of the area were told over a week before the event. Excellent pilots!
That's a combat entry.
I live only about 10 miles from where this took place. Highway 63 at Bono, Arkansas. It was announced in the local media there would be a detour for the highway 63 traffic down the old 63 highway that goes through Bono. They are supposed to do it again. The story given to the media was this was a training exercise for landing supplies in case of a New Madrid earthquake if the airports are destroyed....yeah, right. There are two old world war two air strips close by, one at Walnut Ridge and the other at Newport that could have been used. Something just does not add up. This was the talk of the town in Jonesboro this past Sunday morning.
This is real training. They do this in Europe as well, to use roads as emergency landings. Nothing weird about it.
@@SansVarnic I spent 10 years in the army and we never did anything like this. I try not to read too much into things and I know the military has to train but I also don't see why they did it where they did. Of course, a C-130 can land and take off on a short landing strip. That's what they are designed for. I think this was a demonstration to the public of where they can land as much as it was training. I want to drive over where it landed and see what it did to the highway, if it hurt the surface any at all.
@@manofreedom- I also live about 10 minutes away from where they landed. My immediate thoughts when the News Media was reporting it was going to happen was WHY on 63? This doesn’t make sense, especially “if” it was for an Emergency like an Earthquake. The Military would use Helicopters to fly in equipment/supplies because the Roads would certainly be affected by an Earthquake. Secondly, why was one of the planes an AC-130 Gunship? They do NOT bring in supplies. There’s even a video here on YT by a Military channel showing the AC-130 Gunship landing…
Are the Clintons still flying drugs into Arkansas?
@@strumbum946 My thoughts exactly. I went to a symposium at West Memphis a few years ago about the post earthquake emergency response and the DOT, USGS, DOD, Birlington Northern, Entergy, and gas/oil reps were talking about the aftermath of another New Madrid quake. There wouldn't be a highway system stable for a C-130 to land on. We would be on our own for a minimum of three months with no outside help and the grid would be down from the Appilachians to the Rockies, From Chicago to the Gulf. All interstate bridges and highway would be out. So this "exercise" made no sense.
A great C130 landing.
The Air Force has been landing aircraft on highways for quite a long time, often A-10s.
Just a friendly FYI, some of you may want to do a little research into the Defense Highway Act of 1941, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 and the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956.
Also, look into the (often misrepresented) 1-in-5 mile rule.
Instead of just teasing this, why don't you just include a summary of what those statutes may contain that are relevant?
@@Wyoming4 . . no, . . put some effort into your education.
Yes you are correct but some folks prefer thier assinine opions
Commonly called a tactical landing by warriors. The 130' is a STOL aircraft capable of landing on improved and unimproved surfaces.
A flight crew having a fun day!
I was in the Aerial Port Squadron at the 433rd in Texas and I rode on C-130's on assault landings many times. It was a cool ride and enjoyed every minuet of it, safest plane I ever rode on.
Was that at Dyess AFB. I was a loadmaster in the 347th TAS 1965-67. C-130Es.
Getting ready for November
"Bubba, hold my beer. Watch this."
Bono, Arkansas highway 63.
1:18 "Hey, is that a Buc-ees down there? Bring 'er down, Charlie!"
That's hilarious, bro!!!!
The foil hat crowd has shown up in force.
I see the same tinfoil hat people that freak out every single spring when guard and reserve units are coming to their yearly annual training also freaking out over this
“WHY would they land on MY Highway?!?!?!”
Yeah yeah just shut up and watch the cool planes.
Always the First Ones Dead crowd making fun of the Foil Hat crowd. Enjoy your electricity.
One of the planes that landed was an AC-130 Gunship. The one landing with the lights on. Living 10 minutes away this site, I am still very curious as to why a “gunship” would land on a State Highway… 🤔
It is called "probing." They learned during covid that the vast majority of people are sheep. This exercise is intended to start teaching the sheep to kneel.
It was already at the base (friend saw it come in along with the Wolfhound). It was just a big training exercise. They have to be able to land on small “improvised” runways as well. Nothing more to it.
@@hazmatt3250 Yes there is more to it. This was a tyrannical show of force to condition the sheep to the new paradigm.
Hog huntin'.
PITing has become less effective
they could almost land on that building, saw them land on psc temp steel panels in unbelievable short distances, there was only one that had crashed past the end of the steel, not sure if it was in asua valley or anybody else see that strip, we were up on the big hill west? of there in the 155 Arty's, never knew the name of the hill, up above us we were told was part of the ho Chee min ? trail, we blasted the well out of it most every night and some days, was awesome watching the dusters at night when they could free fire on it, made fourth of July seem tame, if any brother remembers seeing the strip down in the valley (a resupplying point) drop us a line, I've tried to remember the hill/firebase name since 1970, yeah im old
We lost a C-130 at the A Luoi airstrip in the A Shau Valley in April 1968. It was shot down during a low level air drop.
EZ PZ landing compared to the KC-130 that landed (and took back off again) several times on USS Forestall.
LOTS of space!
That is true. But what was the wind speed over the deck with the carrier doing 30 knots into the wind? We used to land on PSP 2500-2800 foot air strips with our C-130B models in Vietnam. Ex C-130B loadmaster.
@@stephenp8086 I don't know what the total wind speed was during those tests, but I'm quite sure it was AT LEAST the 30+ knots the Forestal would have been making at the time.
Yes, I have some idea how much help that is - full load takeoff on the older KC-130 models would have been more like 4000 feet, not the 600 or less feet they needed (and I don't think they used RATO on most of the later parts of the testing, despite the loadout).
For perspective, a WWII era Storch would have been pretending to be a helocopter with THAT much headwind - and doing quite a good job of it.
Look up Eisenhower Highway Act
Why do you just tease this instead of just include why this statute is relevant?
Thats an assault landing
Fun to watch, even more fun to be onboard!!
USAF C-130E crew chief
Little Rock AFB 98-01
Explains why the Run-in-Chef pack used to carry barf bags. Oh, wait, maybe that was cuz of the contents.
Combat Takeoff with JATO is more fun
They did this in Michigan a few years ago.
Not even a full tactical landing. The C-130 can land on 3000 feet and stop. Any C-130 crew can do that.
That was my thought.
Not so much when they don't want to put in a new highway afterward.
AT FULL LOAD.
Light loaded they've managed it on a stationary runway in more like 1500 feet.
@@bricefleckenstein9666 Wouldn't that destroy a highway? Or is that why state/federal highways are so expensive?
@@OneWildTurkey Interstate highways are designed to handle being used as emergency runways for use in wartime in an invasion scenario.
LONG standing law requiring that, goes back to the original National Defense and Interstate Highway Act of 1956 that authorized the original parts of the Interstate system.
The PRIMARY intended usage was to speed transportation of defense-related material through the US, but there were secondary intended uses built into the act.
Same law also put limits on how close bridges can be over Interstates, though more recent versions of the law has allowed for exemptions in high pop density areas (cities for the most part, sometimes clusters like NE Indiana near Chicago).
Note that a C-130 isn't much if any higher density of load per square inch than a full-loaded semi truck. Something like a C5 *might* be more of an issue, fighter/bombers less of one.
There would also be a LOT fewer aircraft using the road as an "emergency landing strip" than the number of semi's that transverse it in a day.
That doesn’t look like Jacksonville to me
They practice in the CONUS because that's where the equipment & crews are. There are Highways everywhere in the world, including Europe. I can see this as training in case USAF gets called on for hot deliveries into/around Ukraine should that situation escalate further. Depending on where they stage from and flight time, hot refueling (even reloading ammo in the case of a Spooky) can be done right on the highway from trucks (that also stay mobile).
Wow someone with common sense actually
Wow
Good airports are hard to find
Umm...guys, the airport is 5 miles that way. 👉
The USA Military Channel has posted a more detailed video about this
Hey Bubba where's the McDonald's at ? And 5-0 said you can't park here .😊😊😊
Smooooooth!
Where was this? How come I didn't see this in the news?
Preparing for a Civil War, I believe.
I live only about 10 miles from where this took place. Highway 63 at Bono Arkansas. Rumor is that the army is going to do it again but with live fire exercise. BUT, that's just the rumor. This was the talk of Jonesboro this past Sunday morning. It was hush-hush in the news.
@@bill2066Oh shut up.
@@manofreedom It's just a faster way to get the hardtop ventilated for re-paving.
No big deal this plane can land on the dirt....
that wasn't just a landing; it's come to be called a "Sarajevo approach." a combat approach designed to avoid ground fire. frightening to see in CONUS- evil times ahead.
Really to be truthful this approach tactic was made usable in Vietnam....
@@vernonslone8627 that's why I used quotations around Sarajevo and then specifically stated "combat approach". it probably predates Vietnam even. the Germans tried to supply their forces around Stalingrad by air.
@@vernonslone8627Why was the USA in Vietnam
@@Philobeddoe12 To stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia...
The " cork screw" entry into a hot zone, or VIPs into a unsecured area is impressive at night no landing lights on air craft or landing area.
The flaw in their thinking is that the one place that will be the most clogged with people and cars and trucks in the event of war would be the highways 😢
This training was done with a earthquake in mind but it wouldn’t take very long for a front and loader to clear the road of all the cars if there was any there
A stellar commemoration of the Bill Clinton days when Mena C130's were allegedly spotted on the dirt runways of Colombia.
Where is the video of takeoff?
Highway 63 in Bono, Arkansas
@@CAHMProductions No, there is no takeoff in your video. Just the landing.
WHY???
Execrise we weren't told about?
Why do you have to be told anything are you a general or someone important.
@@tzazarizona2676 Good point! Which Btw, I searched the internet & found a whole bunch of stories about yes, an exercise. C-130s landing on hwy near Bono, AR. They were landing the planes on the hwy & taking off as part of exercise in case there's a bad earthquake in the New Madrid, MO area. Just goes to show, if something doesn't look or sound right, the info. is out there on the web somewhere. Have a nice day tzaz & stay safe in AZ.
You were. This was something they told people about at least a week in advance. Arkansas Democrat Gazette released an article about it on Jul. 28th.
The highways are here for transport war time issues and are federal property thisvis an oldvissue perfectlly legal
Training for a civil war?
You fool
NO
I see the same tinfoil hat people that freak out every spring when the guard and reserve go to do their yearly annual training are freaking out over this at least they’re consistent
Did you enjoy your vaccine?
@@theroller5673 the one I didn’t take you know there’s a difference between being cautious and being stupid…… personally I think a rock has more cognitive ability than you do either that or you need to get back on the meds
I see the same tinfoil hat people that freak out every spring when the guard and reserve go to do their yearly annual training are freaking out over this….. at least they’re consistent*