• Please take a moment and update your account profile. If you have an updated account profile with basic information on why you are on Air Warriors it will help other people respond to your posts. How do you update your profile you ask?

    Go here:

    Edit Account Details and Profile

NEWS HMMV's Crashing to Earth

Renegade One

Well-Known Member
None
So…never drop the troops immediately prior to the heavy drop on the same DZ? Okay…important safety tip.
 

nittany03

Recovering NFO. Herder of Programmers.
pilot
None
Super Moderator
Contributor
So…never drop the troops immediately prior to the heavy drop on the same DZ? Okay…important safety tip.
Funny . . . I was just talking about this with a C-130 guy the other day. Heavy gear falls faster anyway, even if all the chutes work. So you don't drop items with greater VSI (Humvees) on top of items with lesser VSI (people), or you're going to have problems even before anything hits the ground.
 

Hozer

Jobu needs a refill!
None
Contributor
b98c0d38f92cd4c849778f69df8191e5.jpg
 

Rocketman

Rockets Up
Contributor
I saw a couple of these hard landings in 29 Palms. Jeeps not hummers but it still made a hell of a racket when they hit the ground.
 
Top