Taking The Night Away From Charlie SIXTH TRIENNIAL
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Taking The Night Away From Charlie • SIXTH TRIENNIAL VIETNAM SYMPOSIUM • THE VIETNAM CENTER • TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
QT-2 PC Aircraft
Six Sheave 3: 1 V-Belt Reduction System
Starlight Scopes
“Skonk Works, North Rules (with respect to Kelly Johnson) • Limited Access • Very short Chain Of Command • Direct contact with customer. • Minimum inspection, documentation, and reporting. • Commercial parts and local vendors. • Many usual Do. D & Lockheed requirements waived.
Skonk-Works, North
QT-2 st 1 Flight - August 15, 1967
Prize Crew Operational Evaluation (Op. Eval) Plan • Add IFR Instrumentation and Comm/Nav Avionics • Add viewing ports for the Tactical Observers • Paint the aircraft for night operations. • Train the aircrews • Deploy the aircraft to Vietnam within 90 days. • Conduct nightly surveillance missions. • Evaluate the quiet aircraft concept and, specifically the Prize Crew Aircraft, in a tactical operational environment.
Up-Loading a QT-2 PC into USAF MAC C-130 at NAS Moffett Field, (“Blimp” Hanger in background)
Soc Trang Army Airfield, RVN • • 3500’ Long 130’ Wide Near Sea Level In the Mekong Delta Near Bassac R. and the South China Sea
Off-Loading the QT-2 PC (on its trailer) from the USAF C-130
Uncrating the QT-2 PC
Crew Installing Port Wing
Preflight Checkout
Typical Hanger Work 1
Typical Hanger Work 2
QT-2 PCs on Ramp (STAF Tower in backgound)
Prize Crew Op. Eval Objectives • Determine which missions and roles can be performed by quiet aircraft and ascertain whether the results justify further development of the concept. • Determine the capabilities and limitations of the quiet aircraft in performing those missions and roles. • Determine the requirements to improve mission performance in a future quiet aircraft. • The plan also included additional objectives beyond the scope of this paper: Development and identification of tactics, organizational structures, resources, and support for quiet aircraft operational deployment.
QT-2 PC Range/Endurance
Prize Crew Mission Planning • Two four-hour missions per aircraft each night between sundown and sunrise and within a 70 -mile radius of Soc Trang. • Crew change at turn-around. • On-station times approximately half of the mission time. • Half-hour a fuel reserve allowed for unplanned events. • Alternate Airfields: • 1 st: Binh Thuy VNAFB • Tertiary: Tan Son Nhut and Binh Hoa
Prize Crew Ops Shack
Air Crew Brief/Debrief
Aircrew Ingress and Buckle-Up
Pre-Flight Check-out
Salute and Take-Off
QT-2 PC in Left Turn
QT-2 PC Landing After a Mission
Prize Crew Mission Roles • Hot Contact, Pre- and Post- Strike intelligence. • Linear surveillance along routes, trails, roads, tree lines and waterways • Area and perimeter searches around bases, camps, and outposts: Defense and location of enemy attack positions: • Support for: • Artillery • Special Forces and SEALs. • Riverine and Coastal Naval Forces
Prize Crew Sightings Mission Role % Total Flight Time River/Canal Route: Area, Coastal, Perimeter & Strike Enroute/ Training Average Sightings/ % Flight Sightings Hour 35 15 27. 5 70 20 12. 5 0. 9 0. 62 0. 26 22. 5 100 ----- --0. 49
Optimum Moon-Target-Aircraft relationship for target viewing and minimum aircraft detectability
QT-2 PC Joint Service Air Crew
QT-2 PC Joint Service Ground Crew
75 RR Missed Lucky Trooper
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- Go away spooky monster
- Expression of leave-taking
- Symbolism in night by elie wiesel
- Silent night holy night all is calm all is bright
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- Từ ngữ thể hiện lòng nhân hậu
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