Posted on 06/21/2006 8:45:38 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
I've heard that Ron Howard is going to turn that into a rather controversial movie starring Tom Hanks - it's going to have people questioning what they thought they knew about flight.
Here's that sound... http://youtube.com/watch?v=EAdVlo6WHWM&search=C5%20GALAXY
Awesome!
The sound I miss the most is that of the F-15 and the F-16 JFS on startup. Last time I heard it was at an airshow - and it sounds like home (used to work in F-15/16 engines in the backshop and the flightline).
If the new versions are getting the latest 747-400 engines, do you know the make/manufacture/stats of the big old loud ones?
Our guys really are the best!!!
My brother was stationed at Travis in the late 80's. I got to climb up in the cockpit, two sets of ladders and all. I got to see the living quarters behind the cockpit and then the passenger area up behind the cargo bay. Wasn't the C-17 supposed to be even larger? Whatever happened to that?
During such kind of test flight, they tend to fly gear-down, to make sure they will have a landing gear when the time comes to land. Remember 1989, the B-2's first flight? It flew from Palmdale to Edwards gear-down. If I recall correctly, aircraft 86-0013 (pictured) received both the Avionics Modernization modification and the engine modification.
One baffling thing we have been experiencing at Travis with aircraft undergoing the Avionics mod, is a lot of what we call "legacy" C-5 systems (systems that do not get modified) become very balky after sitting unused for long periods of time, and that includes the landing gears.
My top 3 favorite airplane sounds:
3. The C-5 engines at idle
2. The B-2 engines at idle
1. The A-10 engines at start
All are very comforting sounds to me.
The C-17 is smaller. The concept was to get an aircraft that can haul (kinda) like a C-5, with the short runway capability of the C-130. Watching a C-17 make an assault landing is actually a pretty neat sight.
There. An improvement on your description.
The C-17 Globemaster III is a newer aircraft, but not quite as large as the C-5 Galaxy.
Here are some factsheets:
C-17 Globemaster III
C-5 Galaxy
I tend to have a preference for the C-17, just because I currently work for Pratt & Whitney, whose F117 engines are in use on that aircraft. I used to work for Lockheed, so I do have some respect for both planes, but I like this thing above all.
Actually making an assault landing (combat descent) is sort of like riding a rollercoaster from Hell...
I also like to hear a radial now and then.
Add a B-1 night full afterburner take-off to anyone's list of impressive sights. Nothing quite like it, since I have never seen an SR-71 take off at night.
It's never been able to meet the tactical lift capabilities of the C-130. More so in comparison to the C-130J.
Agreed. The C-17, if you ask me, is a disappointment...
At the end of the annual Wichita River Festival they would fly a low-level nap-of-the-earth dash down the river then pull up hard and light-em up for the thousands of people gathered there.
Only two words for that: Git sum!!!!
The one and only Antonov 225 ever built is now being used in commercial heavy airlift service by a joint Russian-British operation. It was first flown in 1988 but was grounded after the old USSR collapsed and then put back in service in 2001 by the Russian-British commercial operation. It was designed to carry the Russian version of our space shuttle but the Russians shut down that program after the USSR was dissolved.
See it HERE
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