M551 Sheridan LAPES delivery (short clip) / LVAD C-5B Paradrop (short clip)

[Grey Havoc]

Thanks to JUNKHO over at MilitaryPhotos.net for the first clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgg3iRaVnbw&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50cpPAVoxJQ

 

[shedofdread]

Re the LAPES, I wonder; does anyone know what are the forces (g) experienced (vert + long) by the load as it lands?

 

[TomS]

Here's the paper you want:

http://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.1989-887

I don't have AIAA access, though.

 

[Grey Havoc]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp9eJEoMpQ

 

[Grey Havoc]

A photo apparently taken at the same exercise the first video linked in the opening post was shot at (though the terrain looks a bit different):

https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/ocwwb5

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/ocwwb5/m551_sheridan_entering_the_battlefield_in_style/