High Speed Low Level Air Drop System (HSLLADS)

[Guest]

I read in an article that the MC-130W Combat Spear* airplanes, which are modified from H2s, have a reinforced back end to allow the HSLLADS.

Does anybody know if the structural beef-up is the same as the Combat Talon I and the Combat Talon II airplanes, with extruded rails and doublers from FS737 to FS1041?

*Combat Spear, no longer referred to as Combat Wombat

[herktowhale]

The empennage is double skinned and it has a new exterior longeron stiffener. Same basic setup as the Talons.

[US Herk]

TalonOneTF wrote:

*Combat Spear, no longer referred to as Combat Wombat

At Cannon, I think they\'re using the callsign \"wombat\" & refer to themselves as \"whiskeys\"

They\'re a wombat. :laugh:

[Guest]

I heard, but have not seen in writing, that Lockheed was claiming the J-model had incorporated the required structural strength into the empennage design, and was capable of doing HSLLADS without the external reinforcement.

Too good to be true? I dunno....

[Dan Wilson]

*Combat Spear, no longer referred to as Combat Wombat

Regardless what the command structure thinks or wants, its always going to be a wombat

Dan

[Guest]

Another option for the \'W\' might be \"Wanna Be\"...I didn\'t think that up, I heard it from somebody else---honest.

[Dan Wilson]

Yeah but which wannabe are they?

Do they wannabe an HC or an MC-P or an MC-E or an MC-H??????

Better watch out that nobody tries to stuff a cannon on that thing LOL

Dan

[US Herk]

Dan Wilson wrote:

Better watch out that nobody tries to stuff a cannon on that thing LOL

...or a spear! :laugh: :silly:

[whiskey1308]

i work on the w\'s. yes the beef up is just like the combat talon\'s that i worked on before the w\'s.

[Guest]

Ahhhh---memories. I was on the initial flight tests of HSLLADS after the structural mod on the first airplane. That goes back to 1968. We did a lot more than is currently allowed by procedures, but after all, it was a test (with instrumentation) to define and validate the limits.

We blew out the single hydraulic actuator that was on the cargo door (at that time), and as a result, installed the dual door actuators, and the ramp/door sequencing switch.

And by the way, the \"skin doubler\" below the rail from FS737 to 1041 is more than just a skin doubler---it\'s 3/16ths thick \"plate\" aluminum, rolled to conform to the contour.

[Guest]

US Herk wrote:

TalonOneTF wrote:

At Cannon, I think they\'re using the callsign \"wombat\" & refer to themselves as \"whiskeys\"

They\'re a wombat. :laugh:

Thanks for the C/S info. I heard WOMBAT-71 refueling a V-22 from Kirtland, and I have never heard the WOMBAT C/S before.