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Originally Posted by mr.mud1
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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very cool! C17 - the sports model of the C5
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..
