parachute placement

Just wondering what everybody does when they find themselves in the back of a C130 at 20,000 ft. I have seen a few movies and can't quite work out the dynamics for attaching a parachute.

I always just strapped in with a long tether, lowered the ramp and enjoyed the view.

I see you kicked this up a notch....guessing from the classic original: where do you put your phone in your car??

I usually keep the parachute in the back (with the guns and phones). I figure during free-fall I can secure the 'chute to the harness bar, open the sunroof, and just toss the parachute up through the sunroof.

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The rear bumper support posts will handle about 17G for < 330mS. Or, that's what it used to be when I was working in field on fronts. Pretty sure the rear would be the same. I'd use a couple of cables, and two separate lanyards one per side.

I used to put mine under the rear wing. I get thrown out of the plane, and I simply reach down to the fuse box and flip the switch and woowoohooowoop and suddenly I'm dangling at 17000ft listening to Pink Floyd singing This is the End.

I have about 5000 hours flying on differing variants of the 130, and we would never drop anything from 20,000 feet, so hopefully that wasnt your plan. But to answer your question, more than likely you would put the car on a pallet, strap it to the pallet and rig the chutes from the pallet.

I was inspired by a food truck, Taco wing out back and spatula canards up front, will pop the sunroof up for the airbrake

I bet I could 3D print some shims for the wing to give it negative downforce...i.e. lift. If I installed a set of movable spatulas up front as someone so brilliantly suggested, I think I might be able to glide the 996 in! I'm thinking a damn steep dive with a last minute flare, full spatula, just seconds before touch down. Hell, it worked most of the time for the shuttle, and that thing was more of a potato than the SC thread OP's camera. Ima go drink some beer and start fabbing up some spatulas. I have some aluminum stock and an old "immigrants running across the freeway dragging their child" sign from the border checkpoint...perfect!

I've jumped out of a number of them. A couple I was happy to be out of them, but generally, I would rather just drive them home. Most C-130's I've flown in, I would rather land in. As far as my driving is concerned, my take-offs equal my landings. Not all of my friends can say the same. BTW, parachutes don't belong on cars, especially P-cars nor do they belong on mules, dogs or other things that you car about. OK, to put them on C-rats, 105 & 155mm rounds and snake eaters (they're strange anyway). I did once deliver to an arty crew that had been in the desert for 2 weeks in august a pallet of stakes and cold beer. They thought I was angle from above, but never a P-car. - Fast

I keep mine right in front of me, never had to use though, ready for a repack its been a few years This ones taken by me above home town

Every time this type of thread pops up, someone completely misses the sarcasm and it goes way over their head. Instructional video is attached. Fast & Furious 7 // Clip - Plane Drop (OV) - YouTube

^thats the best part