Aviation BS and Photo Thread

Amen too that..... Learned the hard way!!!

 

Just sitting on the skid, waiting on the crew.

 

Most of the time, but we do switch it up on occasion.

 

I meant while taking the picture. I was an armament tech while at a FLARNG Unit when I was young. I thought the shadow looked familiar. Be safe.

 

You belong in here my friend. This is your new home now.

 

Only if you have an air bridge already in place.

The C-17 (Barney) is an F-150 with a 10 gallon tank!

The C-5 (Fred) is an F-350 with extra 40s. She fat, comfy, and gots legs.

 

... ^^^ ... CA ... I liked your above comparison ...

I watched them build C-5's at the Lockheed plant (before Lockheed-Martin merge) in Marietta, GA ... my older "mentoring me friends" were "lifers" there in machine tool design. I was told that Lockheed used to pay $1.00 annual rent and do the base maintenance & construction. Lockheed also shared (past) the "base runway area " with Dobbins AFB (USAF, Navy & MAG 42-USMC Attack Helos) and Air Force One always landed there in the past.

Remembering back when a modified Lockheed C-5 was in a bidding fight against the MDAC C-17 (not yet built in numbers) and the C-17 got the deal because it was justified as a "betweener" C-5 to C-130 and Congressional pressures.

Costs a lot of money to develop and build that C-17 ... while the old C-130 keeps getting modified and goes on and on and on.

 

Exactly @MQQSE

 

Took this on my way into Austin last night. Definitely not as cool as @Beers shot though!

 

It is the time of year to get a lot of great weather shots.

 

Glad we have that C-17 though, makes flights a wee bit faster than a C-130.

 

Going to need to do this more often

 

C5 are not reliable. In 1995 to launch 2 missions you needed 5 acft, and even then you'd be successful and on time only 50-75% of the time. It hasn't gotten much, if any, better.
Ever notice how the only company that can afford to fly them is the American taxpayer?

 

Does your username play into a call sign?

 

Nope, I'm not a pilot...I've just spent the last 22 yrs directly involved in the military airlift game.

 

Good deal, flew on a call sign similar for air lift a while back.

 

Out of CHS?

 

Wasn't out of there but they may have been from there, it was dark and I never saw the tail.

 

When we originally brought them into the inventory at Charleston (1992 - 1993), when the acft was refueled the wing vents made a noise that sounds very much like a moose grunting. To my knowledge, that is the origin of the callsign. I know for a fact the early ones made the noise from hearing them on the flightline at RAF Mildenhall in 1995; and they were flying the Moose call sign. I was told then that was why.

 

Cool stuff! Definitely one of the more unique call signs I've heard.