Here we go. Got it. C130 not C133.
Will make some calculations for takeoff speed and
required accelerations.
Paul Lamar
http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/specs/lockheed/ac-130e.htm

Good idea Paul, but I think that this one would work a tad better....

http://www.af.mil/news/factsheets/C_17_Globemaster_III.html

And it uses Pratt & Whitney engines...  ;-)

Blake

Perhaps. What is the takeoff speed? Gross weight? Wing span?

Paul Lamar

Now we're into my territory - I worked these as an Avionics troop in the AF,
and was later a flight mechanic on them. Awesome aircraft.

I don't have stats here in front of me, but it was designed to park in the
same space as a C141 - same length and span I believe. Takeoff empty is
about 120 knots , landing about 150 knots. Using a combat descent (9 degree
glideslope), it can land in 3000 feet with a 120,000 lb load.

However, since they carry about 168,000 in fuel, they can make it to most
parts of the world with 1 or 2 in-air refueling. The longest flight I ever
did was Charleston SC, to a aerial refuel off anchorage, to aerial refuel
over japan, to aerial refuel over diego garcia, landing at the United Arab
Emirates. IIRC it was about 35 hours flight time one way. We had 4 pilots
and 4 loadmasters (but only 1 flight mechanic). That was probably my
personal record for hours slept in a hammock (I strung a hammock up in the
aft, and slept with an O2 mask next to me).

Mike Harrington

 
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