WhiteKnight77 1 Posted April 4, 2004 Share Posted April 4, 2004 Back in the 60's the Navy wanted a way to get cargo out to carriers at sea and they tried to land a C-130 (we called them sky pigs in the Marines) on the USS Forrestal. C-130 Hercules Lands on U.S.S. Forrestal even has 2 movies showing it landing and taking off. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NYR_32 6 Posted April 4, 2004 Share Posted April 4, 2004 Wow thats nuts lol....on a side note I've seen the USS Forrestal, resting in moth balls, a few times hehe.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jasbo 0 Posted April 5, 2004 Share Posted April 5, 2004 Wow thats nuts lol....on a side note I've seen the USS Forrestal, resting in moth balls, a few times hehe.... The Forrestal was a good ship. I spent some time on it: Summer 1986 - Med. Summer 1987 - North Atlantic Feb 1988 - New Orleans (Mardi gras) There are pictures of this test in the ships library. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteKnight77 1 Posted April 6, 2004 Author Share Posted April 6, 2004 IIRC, she had a terrible time during 'Nam when some ordanance went off and toasted the whole aft end of the boat. Spent quite a bit of time in refit to get her back in shape. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jasbo 0 Posted April 6, 2004 Share Posted April 6, 2004 IIRC, she had a terrible time during 'Nam when some ordanance went off and toasted the whole aft end of the boat. Spent quite a bit of time in refit to get her back in shape. Ah yes, the famous fire. We have all seen the footage on the discovery channel or the history channel. That's how it got its nickname: "Forestfire" A lot of bad things happened and 167 men died. The upside is a lot of changes were made as a result of that fire. mainly being the exclusive use of AFFF foam. Previously they had used just water or a combination of water and foam that turned out to be ineffective against the large quantity of jet fuel on the deck. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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