C-2 Final Flights

[Pilot Fighter]

C-2A Greyhounds make final Carrier On-Board Delivery flights

Two C-2A Greyhound logistics aircraft made the final anticipated carrier on-board delivery (COD) flights on 25 June with landing and catapult takeoff operations aboard...

www.janes.com

 

[Pilot Fighter]

View: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1468052415347207&set=a.662918932527230&type=3

 

[Wardogg]

How are they going to get the mail on the boat now?

 

[Pilot Fighter]

View: https://youtu.be/2GohQqECFFo?is=3en9juJEKPgyFr2a

 

[Pilot Fighter]

How are they going to get the mail on the boat now?

In the most expensive and disruptive means available.

 

[BobDDuck]

I got to experience a cat shot off the Stennis in the back of a C2 years ago. The plan was ancient even back then but it was pretty cool.

 

[Skåning]

How are they going to get the mail on the boat now?

Osprey?

 

[ahw01]

Osprey?

Trebuchet?

 

[Pilot Fighter]

Osprey?

Yep.

 

[Wardogg]

In the most expensive and disruptive means available.

Osprey?

Well, that would be disruptive.

 

[ERfly]

I got to experience a cat shot off the Stennis in the back of a C2 years ago. The plan was ancient even back then but it was pretty cool.

"Jack, the next time you get a bright idea, just put it in a memo."

 

[///AMG]

I wouldn't say I was ever very comfortable riding in one, and I didn't do it more than a half dozen times, but it is sad to see it go. Much better purpose built aircraft than the bastardization of the V-22 will be IMO. They should have clean-sheeted this thing. But just like the 737 replacement, I guess the $$$ wasn't there in the minds of the short-sighted. A friend of mine almost died in the back of one (a C-2) that went down off the coast of Japan maybe 8-10 years ago. I believe he has no recollection of how he made it from underwater inside the plane to the surface.

 

[MikeD]

I still remember seeing C-1A Trader recip COD planes in service with VRC-30 at NZY in the mid-1980s.