Trivia

[elite marksman]

What is the largest Marine Corps aircraft ever to land on a USN carrier? Also, which carrier did it land on?

[Felix/FFDS]

USS Forrestal in October 1963 using a Marine Corps KC-130F

[SilverFox441]

"Look Ma! No Hook" was written on the stbd side of the plane in big block letters.

The designated cargo dummy was not available so the crew substituted a Cat bulldozer to bring the cargo weight up.

The pilot received a DFC for his efforts.

[Theis]

Any pics of that?

[elite marksman]

Yeah, theres a few in one of the Air & Space magazine a few issues back. They're just little one though.
Heres a few I found using google's image search.

[TacitBlue]

Did they launch it with the catapult system?

[SilverFox441]

No catapult, free deck launch.

[Theis]

Cool!! (we must try that in FS!)

[Theis]

Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.

[Ecko]

From www.globalsecurity.org

[quote] Navy Lt. Jim Flatley made history in 1963 by landing a C-130 transport on the deck of an aircraft carrier. It wasn

[TNHunter]

I confess, sometimes I get a little shaky landing on an asphalt runway surrounded by dirt, to even think of putting down on a carrier would make me a we bit skeered.

Anyone who has that kind of airplane control is A1 in my book.

[C]

I believe the C-130 in question retired to a museum sometime in 2005...