C-130J ASSAULT LANDINGS - 4K 

I spent 3 years of my life bouncing around that pattern at KDYS as a teenage loadmaster in the original H models back in the early 80's. The C-130J is a different breed entirely. Fun to watch!

I was the hisorian for the 463rd from 1987 to 90 and again 93 before I became the 7th Wing HO until I retired in 96. Flew tons of CATs, LAPES, and CDS sorties on the old grass and dirt strips. God did I have fun on those LAPES missions standing in the troop door. Talk about an uplifting experince watching those cutes pop, plane jump up, those rollers spin like hell! I wrote Abilene Airlifters as my "swan song" in the AF History program. Whoop!

Who needs a Fighter when you have the 130’s....lots of fun.......Thanks guy for sharing your bird with us.......Thank You for your Service too....

In 1972 I was a A1C stationed at Forbes AFB, KS. 313th Tactical Airlift Wing, 67th and 68th Tactical Airlift Squadrons. Our birds also practiced assault take-offs and landings. SEA was still hot at that time and we sent a sizeable number of our personnel there. Quite a few of our aircrew members went to Hurlburt for the Spec Ops training. One of the spectacular sights regarding the assault take-offs back then was the use of the JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off) bottles to launch. For someone not familiar at that time just watching, it would have appeared the tail of the a/c was on fire. The Herkies have been one of the most reliable platforms, right along with the BUFF. Great old airplanes and the C-130 History isn't anywhere near finished. From airlift, to Hurricane Hunters, to SAR and flying tank....they are going to be around for a long time.

Damn, I never realized how good of a view you get out of the C-130 cockpit.

Thank you for these amazing videos!! I am prior Air Force and I am working on my Commercial and I am inspired by your teamwork, professionalism, use of checklists, call outs and airmanship! Your C-130J aircrew sets a great example and standard for all aviators! Well done and tank you!!! Btw, I was an air traffic controller at Dobbins when the C-130J was originally going through it’s certification in the mid 1990’s - the first group was painted with Australian Royal Air Force color scheme with a kangaroo on the tail! Great airframe!!!

Sweet! Brings back some fond memories hitting Jackrabbit. 772/39th. The J looks sweet to fly but I think I’d miss having the rest of the crew tagging along.

Good Crew, Good Plane, Good Show!

I was standing exactly in the camera's POV once at Cam Ranh Bay once, in a C-130E while the pilot made an assault landing. Although it's been 50 years, it's something I remember very well.

Thanks for a wonderful ride ! (With actual comm and without any music!) .A nice catch guys ,👍.

Seriously impressed with the video stabilization in this video.

When your father left the car key and you and your friends decided to have fun with it in a vacant parking lot. Good times!

Nice Flying boys! damn that thing is fast too.

Did you land in the zone on the first one? So smooth I really could not tell. Flew E models at Pope 85-90. Mine were much harsher as I recall. Good job.

Thanks for uploading this video, I absolutely love watching these, I grew up on maxwell Air Force base and got to watch c-130’s all the time, one of my favorite planes out there, plus being in the cockpit watching the pilots fly is always fun to watch.

Watch you guys when in Abilene a lot. And watch y’all fly into SJT all the time. Love seeing the flying y’all do.

Great video. There is a tactical air strip that’s part of Fort Huachuca near my home airport. I’ve been so tempted to land my bird on it during the weekend when the restricted area is closed and nobody is using it. It’s cool to see the 130’s come in on it.

These guys are good. Surprised to see the captain guarding the controls when it was the copilot''s leg (I realize using the push to talk might explain some of it). This isn't done at the airlines, even with brand new guys. Great video, just an observation.

Late March of 76 flew a hop from Osan to Kadena on the first leg of mid tour leave..... Red jump seats, cold, noisy, overhead panels rattling loose. Cool as hell when you are 20 yrs old.

Spend 3.5 years at LRAFB and a C130 auto pilot & compass specialist and I have to say that looks like a regular landing. The assault landing I watch, came in very close to the tree tops and hit hard on the runway with engine in reverse as they touch down, then takeoffs where with jade oh (S) pods

Superb! Very very very good video and sound ! Great! Greetings from Zagreb / Croatia

I like the HUD, seems to provide pretty wide view angle

That's amazing! I was on the edge of my seat

the approach and landing on a narrow strip with the aircraft in the video above must have ramped up the pucker factor for the crew. BTW job well done

Thanks to The Pilot and The Captain 👍🌟🙏

This is awesome! I’ve got an interview with a C130H unit in march for a UPT slot. Fingers crossed 🤞

Amazing view of Dyess there at the beginning

As one of your FCCs this is amazing

Best video on RU-vid!

That looked a lot more casual than the assault landing I experienced in Honduras.

Your CRM is dope…

Big plane for a ga strip 😆. Seriously though, reverse stops that on a dime. Do you guys practice with heavier loads as well? WW2 ramp could use a fod walk.

wow that mid field entry was really low! (im sure they got it right, its hard to backseat drive from the computer lmbo) I thought a C130 would have a much higher TPA

It seems like you would know the answer to my question(s): During UNOSOM II, I was a passenger on an USAF C-130 from Mombasa to Mogadishu, and we made the approach to the airport in what the crew told us was a 'combat landing'. We approached the runway from over water, and at more than 45 degrees from runway orientation. The descent rate was steeper than I've ever experienced before or since, and seemed to be close to 45 degrees below level flight (There's obviously a chance that I was disoriented, even with being seated next to one of the 'porthole' windows and could see the horizon during the maneuver.) We pulled out from the dive... uncomfortably low, and turned to line up with the runway at the same time. Was that normal? It seemed way more aggressive than the approaches in this video. Was there a more accurate name for the approach we made? Thank you!

Great Pilot congratulations Captain 🤩🙏🤩

Those new electronic flight manuals are nice!

I know there is a name for this approach...."offset".....something or other. I've seen our Hercs do them here in Canada. What's the reasoning for such an approach? Guessing less time on downwind. Cool videos!

great work! very interesting!

The pilot has a "Surfin Bird" voice. I always expected him to: A-well-a ev'rybody's heard about the bird bird bird bird B-bird's the word oh well-a bird bird bird.... like a Nam trauma or tantrum.

nice bank angles

Out of curiosity, why is the “pilot flying” always on the outside of the base turn and final turn? What I mean is when the left seat is flying, you make right traffic and when the right seat us flying, you make left turns. I’m sure there’s a reason, but doing it that way makes it hard for the pilot flying to keep the runway in sight while in the turns. Like I said, I’m sure there’s a reason….I was just curious. Nice video, btw!

5:35 I love how she just bursts into that climb.

Was expecting Khe San or Baghdad approaches....these are pretty tame in comparison.

that looks like a really short runway, is it 2000feet?

Great thanks ✌️

Question for the c-130 crews …. When the nose wheel touched down it looked like ailerons into the wind and straight to the tiller wheel for steering? Also what oil temps would be of concern ? Thanks!

That's what I'm talking about!! DCC

Holly molly that was a great video.

ATC girl sounds like a real cutie!!!

dang looks like he landed on a sidewalk. impressive.

Quite realistic sim, available on pc?

Very nice!

Why does he have his sleeves rolled up and no nomex gloves?

Very cool!

I didn't see a 130??

30 dogs essential skilled part of USAF

Is that you airforceproud?

What's the hand crank wheel to the left, behind the tablet? Nose wheel steering?

Is it me or is the pilot flying in BDUs... What Happened to flight suits and where are his gloves. Or am I just old.

1:28, called tower with gear down, gear still up. Ugggg.

It's a head UP display because the pilot's head is up. "Heads up!" means look out. C'mon now, get it together

Those low level steep turns, is that why that little upper window is there 😅

seems like a giant pattern....

This the marines or the Air force?

I’ve seen driveways longer than that runway

why is everyones headphones bose brand?

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Easy peasy.

I would find the shadowing of the controls from the captain very annoying probably an inexperiece captain!!

Let the copilot have full control when he's on the controls, relax p.i.c.

The radio Gabbing and chatter is ridiculously distracting

Great seeing what the Flight Crews see. I wish there was a video (or in those days film) of our approach and "assault landing" into Camp Radcliff, An Khe, RVN in May 1970. The US had invaded Cambodia, trying to shut down the many pathways called the Ho Chi Minh Trail. I was returning from R&R in the back of a C-130. We could sense something was not normal as our altitude was much higher and our approached was backwards. We were going the opposite direction from usual. Then the Pilot dropped the right wing and the view out of the little port hole windows went from blue sky to brown and green earth, with barracks and roads flashing by. It seemed like we pivoted into a dropping U-turn, which lined us up to the runway. They had executed an amazing 180 degree final turn all above our base. Felt the flair and immediately a rather hard landing, compared to normal. Fast deceleration and another U-turn and the Load Master began sliding pallets off the rear ramp as we slowed down to an abrupt stop. Big rush to get us off! No sooner than we had exited off the ramp, turned to the right, walking toward the Air Force's airport "hootch," than the Pilot blasted us with prop-wash as they sped toward the far end of the field. They made a fast U-turn, spun around and came back toward us. Amazing climb and I guess he was probably a couple of hundred feet above ground when the C-130 crossed the perimeter line. Turns out while the US Army sent the main war-makers to Cambodia, the VC had stayed put and were shelling Camp Radcliff a lot. The kid in the AF "hootch" called it a "hot stop.": He told the few of us flying in that day, "You guys were lucky to get in. We've been closed for days." Was he kidding? It would have been OK with me to have stayed in Hawaii or even Guam a few days until they sorted this all out! Ah, Army life. Thanks for the memories. Loved those C-130's!

as an B738 airline pilot from Germany I find the communication with pilot/copilot kinda funny :D and unusual. good CRM! Always keep cheering the First Officer up :) You know that we all started once.

Excellent show of the C-130 for landing/takoff''s on any surface in any conditions and some runways even shorter than that. Practice and more practice to get the quals right for all and any missions ready requirements. Great work for all the crew on this video and keep up the great work serving your country 👍

Essential skills! Had to land on Kandahar taxiway because the main runway was closed by a crashed drone. Amazing video!

This was really freaky. My dad was a C130J pilot in the British Royal Air Force from 87’ to 2005 and this dude here is the spitting image of him when he was young!

Awesome, the way the ground suddenly rushes up towards you as you come in to land looks freaky as hell!

As a retired USAF controller with loads of experience with parallel rwys and and an LZ (RANGB, yes, a long time ago!), I have to say that this is one of the best videos I have ever seen that truly captures the pilots "critical phases of flight" and why we are taught to never "bother" the pilots during these phases of flight! I don't know if it is still practiced but we used to be given "FAM" flights to get a better understanding of what pilots are going through and how busy the cockpit can get when in these critical phases of flight and what the airfield/pattern look like. This video could easily be used to supplement the FAM flights because of the detail/crew coordination. At one point when the C-130 was cleared for takeoff with an acft on a 5 mile final, the pilots of the C-130 made a comment about two aircraft being cleared at the same time. We called it anticipated separation but for me personally, I maybe would have had the pilot on final initially "continue" with the reason why however I was not there. The controllers on duty know what is going on and I personally do not feel there was anything wrong as they anticipated the separation would exist when the arriving acft crossed the threshold. Again, one of the best potential training videos I have ever seen - outstanding job to all!

My dad was c130 driver and we spent quite a few years at Dyess. We were there when the first B1 was delivered....now I feel old!

Glad they have a real and qualified competent pilot !!!

Great video. Would have been doubly interesting with a runway-side view.

Had a 130 doing these at Fort Drum while I was doing some pattern work in an AH-64. Pretty funny as we do our patterns at 90 ktas so as soon as we turned base as the 130 was on final, we touched down for whatever maneuver we were doing, we would have to take off and make an immediate crosswind turn since the 130 was already almost base again. Pretty cool to see how much these things bank

Any day you can static line off the tailgate of a 130 is a happy happy day !!! I couldn't begin to imagine crewing a Spectre.

The Hercules jumps into the sky with a fervor like no other aircraft.

I recognize Dyess AFB from when I was a C-130 A/C in early ‘70s. We didn’t have concrete to practice on, it was 2500’ or so of hard dirt. The zone was between 100-400 from threshold, approach speed was 107KIAS minimum and touchdown early was a bust and late was immediate go around as stopping before the end was doubtful. On rollout we were frequently engulfed in dust from reverse thrust.Talk about pressure. So much fun!

Cool video! I am surprised at how differently the USAF does their checklists vs the civilian world.

REACH, hello, way back, I discovered that the ORIGINAL HERCS. had used the SAME ALLISON Engines as in the L188 ELECTRA,but now NOT sure what you do have, but I think you now have6 bladed props , Love your assault landing practice, HAPPY NEW YEAR, CHERIO🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Ugh I remember bouncing around the pattern in freddy on hot days at Travis!! Busy! checklist, logging cycles, listening for calls, checking config, fuel, doing 781, malfunctions !!!! My goodness so much for double teaps!!!!! Would do it for free! 👍

I remember beating up the pattern doing assault landings at Little Rock AFB between '89 and '92 as a navigator in the E models. After a long hot day of low level training it was kind of fun to sit back and watch the pilots get a workout.

I noticed he said to make sure to not get too hot on the oil. What causes the oil temps to rise? Great video by the way!

Well done. This is today's Air Force. BTW I made contact with your dad today. We were in the same class for UPT Williams AFB 74-03.

Female Local Controller is talking to fast! Worked the Tower at LRF from 84-90. Our AZ was close to the active runway so they'd land and hold short of the main rwy until cleared to takeoff or cross. The good old days!

Dang I miss flying her !

Very cool video, thanks!

Such a nice video!

What do you mean I'm not in a Cessna?

This is definitely cool to watch. Great team, working together.

Interesting you just let go of the yoke on touchdown, is crosswind correction just not a worry?

As the pilot of a 747 from...GTA V, I can honestly say nothing.

Awesome! Why does the co-pilot put the joke to the right side on landing (3:38) and at the beginning of takeoff (5:12)?