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In article , Stormin' Norman says...

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:23:29 -0500, Mitchell Holman
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.



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In article , Stormin' Norman says...

On 24 Jul 2018 08:56:55 -0700, Miloch
wrote:

In article , Stormin' Norman says...

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:23:29 -0500, Mitchell Holman
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 A-10 is the modern day version...stunning that the AForce wants to shut it
down to save money for the failure that is the F-35


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