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Old 19th Dec 2009, 18:05
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Thanks for posting this.
There have been many different videos of the test on the internet for some some, as well as audio from the cockpit, but I have not seen this video before.

Although it should have possibly been realised that stopping a C130 in flight, to land in a stadium, would massively stress the wings (with the results being obvious in some tests), this was a very impressive triumph of engineering in such a short time!.


At the time of the hostage rescue attempt, I was impressed with the planning of the op, and considered it's failure as very bad luck. With the passing of time, it has become more clear that the move of the hostages was not by pure chance, and that it was not pure co incidence that the hostages were freed at around the time Reagan came into power!
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