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[Looking4new]

If you had to ask why Chevy and Ford guys retrofitted Nash seats into them, then you were probably too young to know.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I should know that one but the forgetter is working overtime. All I remember about them is that the starter button was under the gas pedal. Rather an odd setup but it worked.

Harry K

Some years of Packards and Buicks also had that feature.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

If you had to ask why Chevy and Ford guys retrofitted Nash seats into them, then you were probably too young to know.

I was being facetious. I liked the idea, but not enough to buy a Nash. My '55 Bel Air 2dr hdtp really didn't need them.

 

[crash325]

The C-130 Hercules holds the record for the largest and heaviest aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier. In October and November 1963, a USMC KC-130F (BuNo 149798), bailed to the US Naval Air Test Center, made 21 unarrested landings and take-offs on the USS Forrestal at a number of different weights.

Looks like you are correct.
But it sounds like "touch & go" rather than an actual landing or take off.

Just a little different than an actual take off. A C-130 needs about 3900 feet of runway to take off.

 

[k0ua]

Looks like you are correct.
But it sounds like "touch & go" rather than an actual landing or take off.

Just a little different than an actual take off. A C-130 needs about 3900 feet of runway to take off.

The C130 was able to make several full stop landings and take offs.

 

[k0ua]

You can see one full stop and 1 takeoff here. They claim to have made 21 full stop and takeoff. NO catapult. and no arresting wire.

 

[Looking4new]

I was being facetious. I liked the idea, but not enough to buy a Nash. My '55 Bel Air 2dr hdtp really didn't need them.

Neither did my '55 Packard. One could lay right across the front seat IF you put it all the way back and wanted to stack 'em.:licking:

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Neither did my '55 Packard. One could lay right across the front seat IF you put it all the way back and wanted to stack 'em.:licking:

Wow! A Packard man. My Dad had a '49 Packard 4 door that I learned to drive on.

 

[crash325]

You can see one full stop and 1 takeoff here. They claim to have made 21 full stop and takeoff. NO catapult. and no arresting wire.

The video keep crashing. Finally got it to work & you are correct.

New Question!!
I though that mostly Ford & Mercury were the ones that made "Woodies". But doing a little research almost every major US car maker made 1 or more. At 1 time we had a Buick Woodie. Even Nash made a Woodie, Maybe in more ways than 1.

Who were the one or ones that didn't make a Woodie???

 

[Looking4new]

New Question!!
I though that mostly Ford & Mercury were the ones that made "Woodies". But doing a little research almost every major US car maker made 1 or more. At 1 time we had a Buick Woodie. Even Nash made a Woodie, Maybe in more ways than 1.

Who were the one or ones that didn't make a Woodie???

I don't think that Cadillac made a woodie. I do know that Packard did.