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10-22-2021, 10:08 AM | #1 |
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yesterday at the Halifax International Airport,a Royal Air Force, Boeing C-17A Globemaster plane getting ready for take off.an impressive sight.
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10-22-2021, 02:17 PM | #2 | |
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we left NAS North Island in this one headed for Kuwait.. during the flight brief, the young airman warned us about air sickness during a scheduled in flight refueling scheduled over the east coast.. I asked him if I could go to the cockpit to watch and he said no one had ever asked him but he would find out.. few minutes later he returned and said the captain would allow only one in the cockpit and I was it 4-5 hours later the airman woke me up an took me up front and they let me sit in the forward facing seat behind the pilot! can't even describe how awesome it was to experience the approach and fueling boom connection from the cockpit of a c5.. they made several approaches and breakaways for training so I got to see it a few times.. but then..... something went wrong and one of the probe components broke! I was suddenly escorted back to my seat in the back and we made an emergency landing in Gander Newfoundland we had to debark and the kind folks there called some of the concession staff in and they opened up the terminal for us, can you beat that for hospitality?! after a few hours - back on the road... only to stop in Rota Spain and break down there for three days been half-way around the world a couple of times in a C5 but never flew in a c17 fascinating plane, even if the passenger seats face backwards and no windows LoL..
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10-22-2021, 12:17 PM | #6 |
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10-22-2021, 05:15 PM | #9 |
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Back in the '70s we had a C5 come into Davis-Monthan. I was in SAC security at the time and they pulled us up to secure that sucker while it was on the ground. It was an empty plane but, we had to hump it due to its sheer cost...and we had the clearance higher than LE or flight line security. It took a long time to walk from nose to wingtip, to tail, to wingtip, to nose.
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10-25-2021, 08:25 PM | #10 |
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I like all the pics and stories, but in particularly enjoying the plane pictures and info. If I'm not mistaken, there're six or seven of those at Boeing field right now.
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10-25-2021, 09:06 PM | #12 |
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10-25-2021, 11:39 PM | #13 |
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I'll play- So, in Apr. 91 we're leaving Bahrain after Desert Storm. We get dropped off in an open kinda domed cover thing at the end of the runway and we're all laying on our seabags, waiting. Off down the way there's a C-5 with the nose open, loading up. Huh, that's kinda neat. Pretty soon, they close up the nose, some official dudes do the walk around, and they start getting in the side door. Then it starts to move. Huh, cool, we'll get to see that big mother take off. Then it taxis to the far end of the runway and points DIRECTLY AT US. Big blast of smoke out the back, here it comes. Bigger, bigger, BIGGER, and still on the tires. Then the nose comes up, still coming! About the time you're fixin' to run, it finally gets off the ground and starts clawing for altitude. I kid you not, it didn't clear the hut thing by 50 feet. BOOM! Dirt falling outta the rafters, we about crapped. Too awesome. Man, them things are big.
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10-26-2021, 09:54 AM | #14 |
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Again, great stories and pictures. Experiences we stateside, non-service folks can't hardly imagine. For some reason it's exceedingly cool to me that those planes are drive-through. Talk about keeping the show on the road, nobody even has to back up...
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10-26-2021, 01:51 PM | #15 |
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My rental home is about 10 miles from Stewart air national guard base . The transports fly into there regularly. Just before Desert storm I knew something was going on I was still living there at the time . Instead of two or three flying over a day it was three or four an hour . Things look they are going to drop out of the sky as they make the approach but it's just because their so low and big
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I've seen this the past two years at a show I go to in Sept. Haven't met the owner yet
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10-30-2021, 01:47 AM | #18 |
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Since we’re talking airplanes… I don’t know much about them in general. But when I was 19 I spent the summer in Alaska at a lodge/air strip. I spent a lot of time loading/unloading/fueling a small fleet of 12 planes. And every Thursday this plane (c-46???) would bring by 1,000 gallons of av-gas that we would pump into a transfer truck. We ran everything off of it, quads, pickups… The c-46 would buzz the gravel runway at full speed very low to warn everyone he was coming. We would stand at the end of the runway, it felt like you could almost reach up and touch it when it roared by.
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10-31-2021, 06:06 AM | #19 |
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I found this so interesting I took a picture. This is the end of the day. I wonder how much stone he was hauling on that little trailer with no tailgate in the morning.
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He shouldn't have to worry about any tailgaters
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10-31-2021, 12:16 PM | #21 |
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We did our Halloween themed Back the Blue gathering yesterday. Lots of fun. Trick or treaters all got a blue line flag with their goodies.
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That picture reminded me of when we were coming back from picking up the snow plow the other day. There was a trailer just a little bigger than that sitting along the road. It had a big rock on it and when it hit a rough bridge approach it flattened that trailer like a pancake. Both wheels were all cockeyed and the center of the trailer was on the ground.... I had to chuckle, poor guy had a problem. LockDoc
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See what happens setting up the blind . I was getting stuff out of my truck and the bow was in the blind . He was no more than 20 feet from me .
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Of course.
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