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From: ames!mailrus!BBN.COM!jallred@uunet.UU.NET (John Allred)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Largest Carrier Aircraft
Keywords: trivia, C-130, carrier
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Date: 18 Jan 89 22:32:47 GMT
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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 ]