Originally Posted by
evamodel00
Yeah i'm really surprised that it was scrapped. It seemed like it was an incredibly useful technology. Especially since what I most recently read on it made it seem like it was error on the part of the crew, and not a mechanical malfunction (someone care to comment on that?).
Anyways, thanks for the info!
It was incredibly dangerous technology, and was only applied in that manner because they needed to come up with something that could land in a very small space. Turned out the right answer was helicopters, the only issue was they needed to be refueled.
We have subsequently mastered AAR since the desert-one debacle. Also CV-22 have good unrefueled speed and range, they basically fill the niche envisioned for the JAL C-130.