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Stunning Aerial Photo of a USAF C-17 Globemaster III Parting Clouds, Leaves Corridor-in-the-Clouds
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Posted on 10/11/2004 12:50:02 PM PDT by EnjoyingLife
A United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft separates the clouds, creating a "corridor-in-the-clouds".
February 2, 2003 in the skies of Western South Carolina, USA
U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen, 1st Combat Camera Squadron
U.S. Air Force links: "C-17 parting clouds" and http://www.af.mil/media/photodb/photos/030202-F-0193C-004.jpg
The photo as sized above is from the October 10, 2004 (http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20041010.htm) "Photograph of the Day" page at the ChamorroBible.org website. A smaller image located in the October 2004 archive is also visually impressive. Scientific explanation? That's left to the forum's experts.
This really is excellent photography by Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: miltech
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To: EnjoyingLife
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posted on
10/11/2004 12:51:16 PM PDT
by
MEG33
(John Kerry has been AWOL on issues of national security for two decades)
To: EnjoyingLife
That looks biblical. Thanks for sharing it.
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posted on
10/11/2004 12:51:32 PM PDT
by
Se7eN
To: EnjoyingLife
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posted on
10/11/2004 12:51:32 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(Terrorism: Not a global test, John, but a pop quiz.)
To: EnjoyingLife
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posted on
10/11/2004 12:52:09 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
To: EnjoyingLife
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posted on
10/11/2004 12:52:23 PM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: EnjoyingLife; bulletinthegun; SittinYonder
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posted on
10/11/2004 12:52:28 PM PDT
by
eyespysomething
(Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.)
To: EnjoyingLife
That is a nice picture. Is there any follow up or do we just say it is a nice picture? because it is a nice picture.
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posted on
10/11/2004 12:52:41 PM PDT
by
chalkman
(Three can keep a secret if two are dead.)
To: chalkman
Sorry that probabley came accross wrong. I didn't mean anything.
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posted on
10/11/2004 12:53:53 PM PDT
by
chalkman
(Three can keep a secret if two are dead.)
To: EnjoyingLife
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posted on
10/11/2004 12:54:23 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(..........Yikes!!! Did the Niners just win?? I can't believe it!...........)
To: EnjoyingLife
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posted on
10/11/2004 12:54:52 PM PDT
by
SmithL
To: EnjoyingLife
Chemtrails......Somebody call Art Bell and the tin foil hat crowd!!!
Great photo
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posted on
10/11/2004 12:56:29 PM PDT
by
investigateworld
((SERIOUS TIME; DONATE to the Swifties NOW, Nov 3 is too late))
To: chalkman
Oh, yeah, right. You "didn't mean anything," but with your callous and thoughtless remark you've left a USAF photographer and an entire C-17 aircrew lying, distraught, in fetal positions under the O-club bar. ;-)
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posted on
10/11/2004 12:56:59 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: EnjoyingLife
I remember working on the Corps of Engineer's airdrop requirements for this aricraft when I was in the service back in the early 1980s.
Great aircraft. Terrific replacement for the beloved HerkyBird (C-130).
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posted on
10/11/2004 12:57:42 PM PDT
by
Turk82_1
(They also serve who merely stand and wait.)
To: EnjoyingLife; b4its2late; illstillbe; JRandomFreeper; Northern Yankee; Rivendell; oldngray; ...
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posted on
10/11/2004 1:01:02 PM PDT
by
kayak
(Have you prayed for your President today?)
To: r9etb
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posted on
10/11/2004 1:01:21 PM PDT
by
MEG33
(John Kerry has been AWOL on issues of national security for two decades)
To: EnjoyingLife
Caution, wake turbulence!
To: EnjoyingLife
All aircraft that are producing lift, i.e. flying, have wingtip vortices. These vortices, kinda like horizontal tornadoes, rotate counter to each other when view from the rear. They tend to sink and move away from the centerline of the aircraft. They are most pronounced when the airplane is heavy, slow and in the landing configuration.
Needless to say, wingtip vortices and the turbulence and loss of control that they may cause a following, particularly smaller, aircraft are a major hazard to be avoided during takeoff and landing.
In this photograph these sinking, trailing wingtip vortices have sunk behind the aircraft flying just above a stable stratiform layer of clouds which are disturbed by the vortices hence rendering them visible.
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posted on
10/11/2004 1:03:30 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: EnjoyingLife
And that's why these things can't fly in nicely-organized formations. They produce staggering amounts of wake turbulence.
I have to wonder: if the turbulence is so bad, doesn't it mean this thing is working awful hard to push itself through the air (i.e. it's not an efficient design)?
To: Dan Cooper
Why does the 4 engine 747 have a enlarged fuselage while the 4 engine C-17 does not ?
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