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Stormin' Norman (norman@schwarzkopf.in.memorium) 2018/07/24 10:47

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On 24 Jul 2018 08:56:55 -0700, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
wrote:

>In article <72celd9ob1buqgmcda0chmnskbsr678jg0@4ax.com>, Stormin' Norman says...
>>
>>On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:23:29 -0500, Mitchell Holman
>><noemail@verizont.net> wrote:
>>
>>Hey Mac, you lose something?
>>
>>I don't think anyone took pictures of my incident on the  USS Antietam
>>(CV-36)........ good times......sigh.
>>
>>
>
>
>I attended UC at Davis CA...Davis airport at the time...1960s...had a small
>asphalt runway, no tower (Unicom only) and could handle Cessna 150 type
>aircraft.  I was out there one Sunday and a Navy reservist tried landing in a
>12,000 pound A-1 SkyRaider to visit a friend at the school.
>
>After landing, he struggled to taxi it but the tires sank into the 3/4 inch
>thick asphalt as he tried to brake and turn.  To get out of the rut/hole he was
>digging, he applied full power to the engine but the huge amount of prop wash
>latterly was ripping off sheets of asphalt 12 inches long, slamming them into
>the parked small planes!!
>
>After shutting down, he climbed out and apologized saying "I didn't mean to
>break your airport"...not sure what happened afterwards but I'm sure it wasn't
>pleasant for him or the damaged aircraft and their owners.
>
>True story...actually jaw dropping to watch...I was an ROTC student enrolled in
>their aviation training program and flying a 150.
>
>

The Skyraider was a beast of an aircraft with tremendous payload and
loiter capabilities however, landing of those on a runway built for
small aircraft is kind of like letting teenage Godzilla play in a
kindergarten playground.

The asphalt must have been very warm for the kind of damage you are
describing.


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