dont ever fly in a c-17

warbird2 · **Joined:** Fri Jan 28, 2011 3:03 am **Posts:** 173

TimAPNY wrote:

Moved to "Military Matters" as the C-17 is not yet a warbird.

Tim

Alot of them have been flying in combat during the last few years to not be a war bird.

Invader26 · **Joined:** Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:56 am **Posts:** 843

If a C-17 is not a warbird then what is?

Our RAAF C-17's [and we're getting another] are flying combat missions now along with their sisters from Uncle Sam, the Poms and Canucks...

airnutz · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:27 pm

Invader26 wrote:

If a C-17 is not a warbird then what is?

A post military C-17 under civilian ownership?

Ztex · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:32 pm

What Tim means by "It's not a warbird Yet" is that by a WIX definition a Warbird is a military aircraft that has SURVIVED military service and continues to exist after that service...

The C-17 WILL be a Warbird in the future...I wonder if there will ever be a civilian version around? hmmm The C-47 may be the best bet for a civy transporter in the year 2050...

The Inspector · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:43 pm

OK, BDK time to break out the MD-17 atrwork again!

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11319

I'd like to, but the window of opportunity has passed unless the new noise standards are waived.

muddyboots · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:53 pm

whistlingdeathcorsairs wrote:

iv'e never been in a c-17

I see em and hear em fly over my house every day of the week. It's the only good thing about living in Jackson Mississippi.

whistlingdeath77 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:01 pm

muddyboots wrote:

whistlingdeathcorsairs wrote:

iv'e never been in a c-17

I see em and hear em fly over my house every day of the week. It's the only good thing about living in Jackson Mississippi.

we have the c5a's here

The Inspector · **Posted:** Mon Mar 07, 2011 11:26 pm

Step up to GENEXT GE's 'we be rackin and rowlin now'
Picture in your mind a C-17 painted up in white and purple or brown and white

Old SAR pilot · **Posted:** Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:50 am

Like this one with the Qatar AF?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sREDAhcDGOY/T ... appLGB.JPG

agent86 · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 3:57 am **Posts:** 926

whistlingdeathcorsairs wrote:

muddyboots wrote:

whistlingdeathcorsairs wrote:

iv'e never been in a c-17

I see em and hear em fly over my house every day of the week. It's the only good thing about living in Jackson Mississippi.

we have the c5a's here

In 1986,I lived in Cerritos,Ca.and had a Dc-9 land 100 yards from my house.The first thing I noticed before the crash was the engines going to full power and ever since I have had to go outside and look whenever I hear jet engines change power settings.the DC-9 lost its tail when hit by the Piper Archer,"which crashed 40 yard from my front door" the pilots went to full power cause they had no other options.anyway,I used to live under the flight path of Los Alamitos reserve base. on more than one occasion I heard an airplane engines change pitch and I went out on my rear patio to see and out of the low altitude cloud cover right over my apartment would drop a C-5 with its gear down.it was both huge and scary.those suckers are huge!

whistlingdeath77 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:26 pm

yeah they are!

Hemiman · **Posted:** Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:00 pm

The C-5 is huge, but the Russian Antov is something else!.. Few years back they were using one to fly oil field equipment out of Tulsa. My home is app 12 miles due south of the airport. I had that sucker coming over the house at barely 800ft trying like he-l-l to gain altitude! July take-off's in Tulsa can be fun!

Bill

whistlingdeath77 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:59 pm

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dont ever fly in a c-17

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