Take off and land and never touch the ground?

[1964-M20E]

Very interesting ariticle in AOPA weekly E-magazine. 

 

I knew the military used many small planes similar to the J-3 but this article shed some interesting light on their uses.  Even taking off and landing on an LST without the wheels ever touching the deck.

 

 

 

http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2015/July/Pilot/f_l3?WT.mc_id=&wtmcid;&WT.mc_sect=tts

 

 

[chrisk]

Interesting!

[Jeff_S]

I read that article and looked up the Brodie Landing System as well. Excellent example of necessity being the mother of invention. 

[Browncbr1]

Interesting!

 

 

interesting waste of resources!  haha

[bonal]

At the time they were looking for anything that could give out troops an advantage and aviation was so important in its role as forward recon. some ideas were better than others but I always love how they would try just about anything back then.

fun to watch the movie.

[PTK]

I've never seen that before. Very intetesting!

[Piloto]

Can't imagine this contraption working on choppy seas. You would be better off just dragging an observer on a parachute.

José

[1964-M20E]

I just remembered that they were also doing a similar thing with airships in the 20s or 30s.  However, your starting altitude was much higher.