jallred@uunet.UU.NET (John Allred) (01/19/89)
In article <3202@cbnews.ATT.COM> zorac!client1.dciem.dnd.ca!bgm@uunet.UU.NET (Bruce Matthews) writes: >Trivia question: What is the largest aircraft to be >operated off of a carrier (i.e. both landed and launched)? Hint - it has >not been used in this fashion regularly and indeed may have only been tried >once. I recall a picture of a C-130 trapping on a carrier, with a caption of "wing cleared island by 3 feet", or some other very small margin. ____ John Allred BBN Systems and Technologies Corp. (jallred@bbn.com) A truly wise man (or woman) never plays leapfrog with a unicorn. [Mod note: John gets the cigar, being firstest with the mostest. howard@cos.com (Howard C. Berkowitz) and fiddler@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) were runners-up, each correctly identifying "C-130." No more responses will be posted, unless new info is contained. - Bill ]