Up, up, and away!

A topic I've been noodling for a while, has been scratch building a set of YMC-130s. Whats a YMC-130? Glad you asked. Its a crazy one off design of the venerable C-130, made to land in a soccer (football for my European readers) stadium in Tehran. They were the lynch pin of Operation Credible Sport. Two things put a kink in plan though: one of them crashed -with no casualties- while testing the retro rockets, and Reagan got elected.

Lockheed engineers had decided to strap 30 rockets to each plane, and they would have been used for both landing and then taking off again after the hostages had been rescued. Check out this video of them in action, but forewarned, about a minute and a half in is the video of the crash.

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Holy crap right? As a wargame scenario, the idea is a perfect "What if?". Looking at Google maps, the whole thing looks doable.

A standard field is ~110 yds (330 ft) by 70 yds (210 ft), so two C-130s could fit.

I just need to figure out which scale to build it in.