{"id":5909639,"date":"2026-07-17T11:49:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=5909639"},"modified":"2026-09-04T09:15:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:15:23","slug":"operation-fusee-sportive-credible-c-130-stade-de-teheran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/operation-credible-sport-rocket-c-130-tehran-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#039;Hercule \u00e0 propulsion fus\u00e9e con\u00e7u pour atterrir dans un stade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid #0F1720;background:#fff;color:#0F1720;font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;letter-spacing:0;text-transform:none;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:none;transition:background .15s,color 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The plan was insane and deadly serious: fly the four-engine transport into a soccer stadium in the middle of Tehran, stop it inside the length of the pitch, load fifty-two American hostages, and blast it back into the sky almost vertically before the walls arrived.<\/p>\r\n<p>The programme was called Credible Sport. It produced one of the most extraordinary aircraft ever built \u2014 and one of the most spectacular test crashes ever filmed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f5f5f5; padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; margin: 24px 0;\">\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: .03em; color: #111;\">QUICK FACTS<\/p>\r\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Programme<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">Operation Credible Sport (1980)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Aircraft<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">Lockheed C-130H modified to XFC-130H \"Super STOL\"<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Rockets fitted<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">30, in five sets (braking, descent and lift)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Goal<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">Land and take off inside a Tehran stadium<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Crash<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">29 October 1980, Wagner Field, Eglin AFB \u2014 no fatalities<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 12px 6px 0; font-weight: 600; color: #333; vertical-align: top; white-space: nowrap;\">Outcome<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px 0; color: #444;\">Cancelled after a hostage-release deal; hostages freed Jan 1981<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Born from a disaster<\/h2>\r\n<p>Credible Sport existed because the first rescue attempt had ended in catastrophe. On 24 April 1980, Operation Eagle Claw collapsed at a desert refuelling point code-named Desert One, where a helicopter collided with an EC-130 and eight servicemen died. The mission was aborted; the hostages stayed in Tehran.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/desert-one-eagle-claw-wreckage.png\" alt=\"Desert One wreckage\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">The burned-out wreckage at Desert One after Operation Eagle Claw failed in April 1980. Credible Sport was the desperate plan for a second attempt. Photo: U.S. Department of Defense<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>A second attempt would need to land right in the heart of the city \u2014 and there was no runway. So planners turned to the only flat, open space near the embassy: the Amjadieh soccer stadium. The problem was getting a Hercules in and out of a space barely 600 feet long, ringed by 90-foot obstacles.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 24px 0;\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fSFjhWw4DNo\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">Thirty rockets and a very short field<\/h2>\r\n<p>The engineering answer was brute force. Lockheed and the Air Force bolted rockets all over the airframe: motors firing forward to slam it to a stop on landing, motors firing down to cushion the descent, and motors firing backward to hurl it off the ground on takeoff. Add double-slotted flaps, a tailhook for carrier recovery, and terrain-following radar, and the XFC-130H \"Super STOL\" was born.<\/p>\r\n<p>And it worked \u2014 brilliantly, at first. Test crews recorded takeoff performance that reads like science fiction.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f8f9fa; border-left: 4px solid  #1565c0; padding: 20px 22px; margin: 18px 0 24px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; display: flex; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start;\">\r\n<div><em>\u201cThe nose gear lifted six feet off the ground after 10 feet of takeoff roll, and the aircraft was airborne within 150 feet of brake release. Within the length of a soccer field, it had reached an altitude of 30 feet and an airspeed of 115 knots.\u201d<\/em>\r\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 14px; color: #555;\"><strong>Col. Jerry Thigpen<\/strong> \u2014 \"The Praetorian STARShip: The Untold Story of the Combat Talon\"<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin: 0 0 24px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; border-radius: 6px;\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/07\/c-130-jato-rocket-takeoff.jpg\" alt=\"A C-130 firing rocket-assisted-takeoff bottles\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/>\r\n<figcaption style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #777; text-align: center; margin-top: 6px; font-style: italic;\">The principle, at a fraction of the scale: a C-130 fires JATO rockets on takeoff. Credible Sport pushed the idea to a violent extreme with 30 motors. Photo: U.S. Navy<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top: 22px;\">The day it all went wrong<\/h2>\r\n<p>On 29 October 1980, at Wagner Field on the Eglin range, the crew flew the full landing profile. Then the sequence misfired: the braking rockets fired at the wrong instant while the descent-cushioning rockets did not fire at all. The Hercules dropped like a stone, slammed onto the field, and its starboard wing tore off between the engines. Fire erupted \u2014 and was smothered within seconds. Astonishingly, everyone walked away.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background: #f8f9fa; border-left: 4px solid  #1565c0; padding: 20px 22px; margin: 18px 0 24px; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.7; display: flex; gap: 20px; align-items: flex-start;\">\r\n<div><em>\u201cMy primary purpose in supporting this project was to obtain a quick increase in the number of MC-130 refuelable aircraft.\u201d<\/em>\r\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 14px; color: #555;\"><strong>Maj. Gen. James Vaught<\/strong> \u2014 U.S. Army, November 1980 memo<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>Days later, events overtook the machine. Iran accepted an Algerian-brokered release plan, Ronald Reagan won the presidency, and the second raid was shelved. The 52 hostages walked free on 20 January 1981. One of the surviving rocket-Hercules airframes still exists, preserved at a New York museum \u2014 proof that the maddest idea in special-operations aviation was also, very nearly, real.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 24px 0;\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; border-radius: 8px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FetzW3yqSpM\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\n\n\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What was Operation Credible Sport?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">A 1980 American programme to build a rocket-assisted C-130 Hercules capable of landing inside a Tehran soccer stadium, loading the 52 American hostages, and blasting out again almost vertically. The modified aircraft was designated XFC-130H and carried thirty rockets.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why did they need a rocket-powered Hercules?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Because there was no runway near the embassy. The only flat open space was the Amjadieh soccer stadium, barely 600 feet long and ringed by 90-foot obstacles. Getting a four-engine transport in and out of that space required brute force.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How did the rockets work?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Thirty motors in five sets: some firing forward to slam the aircraft to a stop on landing, some firing downward to cushion the descent, and some firing backward to hurl it off the ground on take-off. The aircraft also had double-slotted flaps, a tailhook for carrier recovery, and terrain-following radar.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did it actually work?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The take-off performance was extraordinary. Test crews recorded the nose gear lifting six feet off the ground after ten feet of roll, the aircraft airborne within 150 feet of brake release, and 30 feet of altitude at 115 knots within the length of a soccer field.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What happened to the aircraft?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">It crashed on 29 October 1980 at Wagner Field, Eglin Air Force Base, when the braking rockets fired at the wrong moment during a test. There were no fatalities, but the airframe was destroyed and the film of it is among the most spectacular test crashes ever recorded.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why was Credible Sport cancelled?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">A hostage-release deal was reached and the mission was no longer needed. The hostages were freed in January 1981. 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