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Years ago, at a Military Appreciation Day held at the Yuma Proving Grounds, they were going to demonstrate a LAPES, or low altitude pallet extraction of an M113 APC from the back of a C-130.
This in front of full grandstands...
All was fine and well as the plane was about 3 ft off the ground...