https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airborne_Day
That's today! Airborne All The Way!
I made a video last week, as a practice to reminisce about my youth when I was brave and bold (no longer the case!) :
(It's a bit long at close to 30 minutes, and I end up destroying a M113 on a LAPES drop -- which is rather close to real-life when they used to do this stuff. Lots of equipment was destroyed and more than a few lives lost. They don't do this anymore!)
I've been flying simulators a lot lately since the pandemic started. One of them, Digital Combat Simulator (DCS) has a free user (Anubis) created C-130 Hercules aircraft mod that implements a surprising number of features (payload, multiple crew stations, damage/failures, parachute operations, etc)
What I really get a kick out of is, it's all freely downloadable and you really don't need to spend any money, except having a decent system and controllers to run it:
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/
https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/252075-dcs-super-hercules-mod-by-anubis/
That's today! Airborne All The Way!
I made a video last week, as a practice to reminisce about my youth when I was brave and bold (no longer the case!) :
(It's a bit long at close to 30 minutes, and I end up destroying a M113 on a LAPES drop -- which is rather close to real-life when they used to do this stuff. Lots of equipment was destroyed and more than a few lives lost. They don't do this anymore!)
I've been flying simulators a lot lately since the pandemic started. One of them, Digital Combat Simulator (DCS) has a free user (Anubis) created C-130 Hercules aircraft mod that implements a surprising number of features (payload, multiple crew stations, damage/failures, parachute operations, etc)
What I really get a kick out of is, it's all freely downloadable and you really don't need to spend any money, except having a decent system and controllers to run it:
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/
https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/252075-dcs-super-hercules-mod-by-anubis/