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This video will probably boot Emerson sales by 300% and it turned out awesome on on many levels. That's because you will get rare insight on the m...
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This video will probably boot Emerson sales by 300% and it turned out awesome on on many levels. That's because you will get rare insight on the man behind the blades and his philosophy: Ernest R. Emerson. He is our meaningful and well spoken host for yet another GOLD STAR Nutnfancy SHOT Show booth review. Mr. Emerson, a respected combat knife source for decades among British and US Special Operations and responsible civilians, is a man of character and sincerity. I am struck by his loyalty to his customers, his understanding of friendship, and confidence is his philosophy. He is knowledgeable, sincere, humble, meaningful, anti-nonsense, and true. It is a joy to hear him discuss his blades and philosophies as he and I see many things the same way. From this integrity and passion springs forth the Emerson blades which we see and discuss in detail. These are enduring designs, not changed by whim or marking executives, having served his customers in serious roles for many years. I respect the steel, the designs of function, and the consistency of Emerson. Like he says, these knives are not designed by committee. Along this interesting discussion TacticalDoodle and I have Earnie talk about his chisel and single edge grinds on his blades, choices of materials, his patented Pocket Opening feature (Wave), and more. We see the Commander, Tactical Persian, Like his favorite '67 Camaro, these knives bespeak of a certain elegant design that needs no explanation and is not diminished by the passage of time. If you like knives of any kind, you will find gold in this touchstone interview with Mr. Emerson himself and I thank him for his time.////////////////////////Video quality diminished from HD original. Many steps and cost undertaken to rescue this footage for posterity after the storage card crashed.////////This vid had to be re-uploaded due to YT error which cut half of it off. At the time it had 7k views.
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Tom Wallisch lets us follow him around for a few runs in Breckenridge Colorado laden with GoPro HD cameras. Wallisch takes us through the public p...
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Tom Wallisch lets us follow him around for a few runs in Breckenridge Colorado laden with GoPro HD cameras. Wallisch takes us through the public park and the DewTour slopestyle course where he threw down a run that earned him 2nd place overall in December, 2009. Entire video was shot on the GoPro HD cameras.
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The P-3. Now, more than ever, it has become a critical tool for those who protect our borders. This legendary Lockheed Martin surveillance and re...
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The P-3. Now, more than ever, it has become a critical tool for those who protect our borders. This legendary Lockheed Martin surveillance and reconnaissance airplane, updated for the 21st century, has helped U.S. Customs and Border Protection accomplish some remarkable things in the past year.
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Operation Credible Sport was a United States military aircraft modification plan in late 1980 to prepare for a second rescue attempt of the hostage...
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Operation Credible Sport was a United States military aircraft modification plan in late 1980 to prepare for a second rescue attempt of the hostages held in Iran using C-130 cargo planes modified with rocket engines. Its followup project in 1981-82, Credible Sport II, used one of the original aircraft as the YMC-130 prototype for the MC-130H Combat Talon II.
The Credible Sport program was a developmental project to create capabilites for a "Super STOL" aircraft to use in rescuing the hostages after the dramatic failure of Operation Eagle Claw. Eagle Claw failed when a Sea Stallion helicopter crashed into a parked C-130 Hercules in the Iranian desert, killing 8 servicemen. Credible Sport was abandoned as unnecessary after the election of Ronald Reagan as President in November, 1980. The program was developed to be a quick strike, simplified plan when overall plans and military exercises developed for Project Honey Badger to implement a second rescue attempt grew to involve over a hundred primary aircraft and large numbers of ground troops.
The Credible Sport concept called for modified C-130 Hercules cargo planes to land in the Amjadien (soccer) Stadium across the street from the American Embassy in Tehran and airlift out the rescued hostages. The aircraft would then be flown to and landed on an aircraft carrier for immediate medical treatment of injured hostages. Three MC-130 Combat Talon crews (all Eagle Claw veterans) were assigned to fly the three aircraft drawn from the 463rd Military Airlift Wing, with the concept plan calling for the mission to originate in the United States, reaching Iran by five in flight refuelings.
The test bed aircraft (74-2065) was ready for its first test flight on September 18, 1980, just three weeks after the project was initiated. The first fully modified aircraft, AF Serial No. 74-1683, was delivered on October 17 to TAB 1, a disused auxiliary airfield at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Between October 19 and October 28, numerous flights were made testing various aspects, including the double-slotted flaps system, which enabled the C-130 to fly at 85 knots on final approach at just an eight-degree glide slope. All aspects worked flawlessly, and a full profile test was scheduled for October 29.
During the test, the Lockheed crew determined that the computer used to command the firing of the rockets during the landing sequence needed further calibration to perform the crucial firing sequence during landing, and elected to manually input commands. The reverse-mounted (forward facing) eight ASROC rockets were situated in pairs on the upper curvature of the fuselage behind the cockpit, and at the mid-point of each side of the fuselage beneath the uppers. Testing had determined that the upper pairs, fired sequentially, could be ignited while still airborne (specifically, at 20 feet), the lower pairs could only be fired after the aircraft was on the ground. The flight engineer, blinded by the firing of the upper deceleration rockets, thought the aircraft was on the runway and fired the lower set early, while the descent-braking rockets did not fire at all. Later unofficial disclaimers alleged to have been made by some members of the Lockheed test crew asserted that the lower rockets fired themselves through an undetermined computer or electrical malfunction, which at the same time failed to fire the descent-braking rockets.
As a result, the aircraft's forward flight vector was reduced to zero, dropping it to the runway and tearing off the starboard wing between the third and fourth engines. During rollout the trailing wing ignited a fire, but crash response teams extinguished the fire within eight seconds of the aircraft stopping, enabling the crew to exit the aircraft without injury. 74-1683 was destroyed but most of its unique systems were salvaged.
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