He did it just short of 3000 feet. For those of you who will say, "how do you know that?" Well there are markers every thousand feet with numbers on them. The first marker says 1 the second 2 and so on up to the length of the airport. His nose gear was up before the 3 marker. One hell of an impressive job of flying. Someone mentioned watching the rudder, the cross wind was so bad he was almost full left rudder at take off. Again, impressive. Good job pilot!
I have flight expirience vith RAF C-17, From Basra (IRAQ) to Brize Norton ENGLAND, Non Stop. I never forgat that fligt... That is amazing trip, no turbulence, no cross vind, I love that beautiful machine...
Don't normally get excited about military transport aircraft - till I saw this thing. We see them flying low and right overhead on final to Comox AFB. sometimes. Hard to believe something that big can fly so gracefully.
Yeah, I live next to this airport and I've seen them do that before after lifting off. The only other cooler machinery to take off from here were a pair of B-1Bs a few years back.
AviatorMxPilot to add onto your "big bowl" wing analogy, there is actually so much lift from a 3/4 or Full Flap Setting that additions to thrust will actually cause changes in altitude. This is called Powered Lift, and is what the pilots will use to "Flare" the aircraft during the landing phase of flight.
/watch?v=VH-KDGRwwck - Russian documentary about NATO transport aviation with English subs. Including C-17 Globemaster III, C-141 Starlifter, C-5 Galaxy, C-130 Hercules, C-160 Transall.
OMG! I'm totally in love with that plane! It's simply amazing how these 80 tons just glide away like a feather! Anybody know the exact take-off speed with no wind at sea lvl?
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i saw one of those a few days ago... on thursday to be exact, i also saw an MAQ UAV Reaper (drone) and while i was at my friend's house i saw two f 16s and they were flying really low... it was so loud you had to yell for someone to here you talking
The wing efficiency on this aircraft is amazing. You don't think it's going fast enough, then it simply lifts into the air gently. And to finish it all off, we get a little side to side wave. Excellent! :)
That wasn't wind sheer or wake turbulence, that was a pilot showing off with the side to side roll. It's a standard practice for pilots to do that for an accomplishment or to show satisfaction.
Nope, not at all. I've flown on them plenty of times and am familar with thier capabilities. Again, standard thing they do to "show satisfaction", is a tip one way, then the other and be on thier way. Had C-130 crew once do so for my unit after an airborn op, they did it at about 200' AGL over the lake we had just jumped into.
The way you can tell it was nothing more than I say is, it's a bank to one side, with an equal bank to the other, and then flat and level from there on.
@afsoldr I work in the building at 0:43 This was a delivery to our customer (USAF) That was the pilot waving good by and or saluting the people of UAW Local 148 in Long beach, CA who build this awsome aircraft. This is done in just about every delivery. I once saw a pilot roll the a C-17 that had the wing tips pointing almost 90 degrees at the ground!
@aviatormxpilot You are correct. I worked the flight ramp at DAC back in the 80's. All of the aicraft did the wing waggle at delivery. My most memorable was a KC-10. The pilot did the 'good bye' wave at such a low altitude I thought that he was going to catch a wing tip but didn't. I was a ramp tech on the MD-80 side. I loved testing those birds over the Pacific. Stall testing was such a rush.
It's crazy seeing one of these big guys fly low over my house and land at our tiny airport, one came in for an airshow. If she can land here, She really can land anywhere!
I remember reading and seeing early prototypes in my "war planes of the future book." If I recall it looked a little different and one other contender had a huge candy cane pitot probe. Very cool.
@aviatormxpilot yeah i get what you are saying..... but it is also true that aircraft like this ,wing mounted over the fuselage, create more lift than most commercial aircraft.
for example Airbus A340-600HGW has about 68,000 more thrust than C-5 Galaxy with the same maximum takeoff weight.
It was a delivery wave. I've seen dozens of them in Long Beach from both the C-17s and the commercial aircraft -- MD-80s and MD-11s. It wasn't wind shear.
Unless there was an aircraft that just departed that same runway (thereby inducing a "rolling moment" that the C-17 experienced), it was definitely a "wave". It would have had to have been a 747 or, maybe, an AN-225 to cause that to have happen to an aircraft the size and weight of the C-17. Again, a wave goodbye.
where was that? At :57 you can see what at lease appears to me as an American Super MD 80. theirs only a handful of places that have airline and military traffic. unless it was an airshow.
yep, its a wave. Too bad the canadians didn't wave when they picked up their first plane..I was hoping to see a canadian wave. We get a great view from 52.
That is a delivery flight to McChord (green tail flash) - it is a WAVE, acknowledging the Boeing people who built it - seen that wave several times. BTW, note about 1:03 into the clip you see a C-17 by the tower, in front of Bldg 98 - I was most likely on the jet.
You must be one of those who think God created Earth in seven days and NASCAR is cool. If you don't know anything aircraft related subjects, which by your illiterate and groundless comment it is fully evident that you don't, shut your fucking hole.
operationcwal789789 you are an assclown. Wind Shear LMAO. Please don't use random words that you heard on discovery channel once and pretend like you know what they mean. sush is correct they are saluting.
He did it just short of 3000 feet. For those of you who will say, "how do you know that?" Well there are markers every thousand feet with numbers on them. The first marker says 1 the second 2 and so on up to the length of the airport. His nose gear was up before the 3 marker. One hell of an impressive job of flying. Someone mentioned watching the rudder, the cross wind was so bad he was almost full left rudder at take off. Again, impressive. Good job pilot!
segundooron 1 month ago
This aircraft is far more majestic than the A380. Nice.
capkirk73 2 months ago
Watched it 9 times and it still gave me the chills up my spine
fLop417 3 months ago
usa .....the best.....................!
OTULP62 9 months ago
ASTOUNDING
eerockk111 11 months ago
i enjoyed 0:49 :)
platinumsalamander 1 year ago
I have flight expirience vith RAF C-17, From Basra (IRAQ) to Brize Norton ENGLAND, Non Stop. I never forgat that fligt... That is amazing trip, no turbulence, no cross vind, I love that beautiful machine...
DodoSkydrums 1 year ago
Don't normally get excited about military transport aircraft - till I saw this thing. We see them flying low and right overhead on final to Comox AFB. sometimes. Hard to believe something that big can fly so gracefully.
agwhitaker 1 year ago
woops hehe :)
TheCozzie99 1 year ago
If I were a billionaire, this'd be MY private jet. ;)
silexent 1 year ago
Yeah, I live next to this airport and I've seen them do that before after lifting off. The only other cooler machinery to take off from here were a pair of B-1Bs a few years back.
tuner562 1 year ago
Nice takeoff
asas2jh 1 year ago
like a flying cow :)
soco75 1 year ago 5
@soco75 lol
NextLvlProductions 1 year ago
Blows my mind how something so gigantic can get airborne. Crazy what people are capable of designing.
HuuGRection 1 year ago
AviatorMxPilot to add onto your "big bowl" wing analogy, there is actually so much lift from a 3/4 or Full Flap Setting that additions to thrust will actually cause changes in altitude. This is called Powered Lift, and is what the pilots will use to "Flare" the aircraft during the landing phase of flight.
Malleus09 1 year ago
Looks like dropping the wings was intentional.
rsyodi 1 year ago
@rsyodi It's kinda like a wave goodbye.
CessnaAviator317 1 year ago
Erm i think its because its windy? Saw a DC10 years ago take off in a really windy day and he must have hit 3000 ft by the end of the runway!
Sterlingjob 1 year ago
looks like its hardly moving
noah3824 1 year ago
That's a bird out of McChord AFB (now Joint Base Lewis-McChord). I love living by this base, these things are a pleasure to watch.
DarkestHourRock 1 year ago
that is one plane i like to fly if i was in the air force
isaiah213 1 year ago
Just amazing!
Xpunkskater4lifeX 1 year ago
16 sek Takeoff... ^^
Access1993 1 year ago
@Access1993 It'll land, stop and will move backwards in 12 sec!!!
aviatormxpilot 1 year ago
Outstanding! Thanx for sharing this.
icast4majors 1 year ago
much heavy
razanet16 1 year ago
White Man! .......Sweet!!!!! )
Aonexia 1 year ago
/watch?v=VH-KDGRwwck - Russian documentary about NATO transport aviation with English subs. Including C-17 Globemaster III, C-141 Starlifter, C-5 Galaxy, C-130 Hercules, C-160 Transall.
BitnikGr 1 year ago
OMG! I'm totally in love with that plane! It's simply amazing how these 80 tons just glide away like a feather! Anybody know the exact take-off speed with no wind at sea lvl?
Kebabsoup 1 year ago
@Kebabsoup
no wind at sea level rotate speed was around like 120-130 knots.
a1ctaylor 1 year ago
I used to work across the airport (LB) at Spring St. It was always a pleasure watching these behemoths come and go.
I used to watch the B-1 bombers too that came occasionally.
The freeway 405 in the background.
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dumpyku 2 years ago
wholy Globemaster....
Dmetrey437 2 years ago
i saw one of those a few days ago... on thursday to be exact, i also saw an MAQ UAV Reaper (drone) and while i was at my friend's house i saw two f 16s and they were flying really low... it was so loud you had to yell for someone to here you talking
TheGoldenLancer 2 years ago
looks like Long Beach, home of the C-17 :D
makreis 2 years ago
thats so kewl
racerguy998 2 years ago
The wing efficiency on this aircraft is amazing. You don't think it's going fast enough, then it simply lifts into the air gently. And to finish it all off, we get a little side to side wave. Excellent! :)
d2gizzo 2 years ago 24
yeah, amazing :)
juuliuuz 2 years ago
OMG....
so Crazy....
hmrt135 2 years ago
That wasn't wind sheer or wake turbulence, that was a pilot showing off with the side to side roll. It's a standard practice for pilots to do that for an accomplishment or to show satisfaction.
afsoldr 2 years ago
show n off??? seems a little TOO low to be show n off with an airplane of THAT size........dont ya think
390851 2 years ago
Nope, not at all. I've flown on them plenty of times and am familar with thier capabilities. Again, standard thing they do to "show satisfaction", is a tip one way, then the other and be on thier way. Had C-130 crew once do so for my unit after an airborn op, they did it at about 200' AGL over the lake we had just jumped into.
The way you can tell it was nothing more than I say is, it's a bank to one side, with an equal bank to the other, and then flat and level from there on.
afsoldr 2 years ago
@afsoldr I work in the building at 0:43 This was a delivery to our customer (USAF) That was the pilot waving good by and or saluting the people of UAW Local 148 in Long beach, CA who build this awsome aircraft. This is done in just about every delivery. I once saw a pilot roll the a C-17 that had the wing tips pointing almost 90 degrees at the ground!
aviatormxpilot 2 years ago
@aviatormxpilot You are correct. I worked the flight ramp at DAC back in the 80's. All of the aicraft did the wing waggle at delivery. My most memorable was a KC-10. The pilot did the 'good bye' wave at such a low altitude I thought that he was going to catch a wing tip but didn't. I was a ramp tech on the MD-80 side. I loved testing those birds over the Pacific. Stall testing was such a rush.
ronjm23 1 year ago
It's crazy seeing one of these big guys fly low over my house and land at our tiny airport, one came in for an airshow. If she can land here, She really can land anywhere!
SableSpike747 2 years ago
The Ferrari of Military transport. Awesome.
I remember reading and seeing early prototypes in my "war planes of the future book." If I recall it looked a little different and one other contender had a huge candy cane pitot probe. Very cool.
biped19 2 years ago
the reason why it takes only about 15 second because over the fuselage wing create more lift compare to under the fuselage wing
Jefford717 2 years ago
@Jefford717 No... The cross section of the wing with full flaps and slats looks like a an up side down bowl.... Big time drag, but big time lift!
aviatormxpilot 1 year ago
@aviatormxpilot yeah i get what you are saying..... but it is also true that aircraft like this ,wing mounted over the fuselage, create more lift than most commercial aircraft.
for example Airbus A340-600HGW has about 68,000 more thrust than C-5 Galaxy with the same maximum takeoff weight.
Jefford717 1 year ago
did he just do that?
markston92 2 years ago
What an amazing bird
gangster3591 2 years ago 14
It was a delivery wave. I've seen dozens of them in Long Beach from both the C-17s and the commercial aircraft -- MD-80s and MD-11s. It wasn't wind shear.
Magobrillo 2 years ago
long beach airport.. gotta love it .. sadly the C-17 contract is ending soon unless new order's are placed before 2010
wakecool 3 years ago
Expect orders for a few more RAF examples
dogcalleddill 3 years ago
or he was just showing off. nothing to see here move on.
UFOSPACE1999 3 years ago 3
Unless there was an aircraft that just departed that same runway (thereby inducing a "rolling moment" that the C-17 experienced), it was definitely a "wave". It would have had to have been a 747 or, maybe, an AN-225 to cause that to have happen to an aircraft the size and weight of the C-17. Again, a wave goodbye.
mmichaeldonavon 3 years ago
For not being a fighter the c-17 has to be one of the sickest planes in the usaf
gomich9 3 years ago
That was a great wave. Very nice video, thanks for sharing.
Austin765 3 years ago
where was that? At :57 you can see what at lease appears to me as an American Super MD 80. theirs only a handful of places that have airline and military traffic. unless it was an airshow.
pilotnerd101 3 years ago
yep, its a wave. Too bad the canadians didn't wave when they picked up their first plane..I was hoping to see a canadian wave. We get a great view from 52.
thomas997 3 years ago
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That is a delivery flight to McChord (green tail flash) - it is a WAVE, acknowledging the Boeing people who built it - seen that wave several times. BTW, note about 1:03 into the clip you see a C-17 by the tower, in front of Bldg 98 - I was most likely on the jet.
Studsquirrel 4 years ago
Love the wing rock wave after take off!
tonyt73 4 years ago
It's not a wave. It's called wind shear. Either way, it's cool to see. Peace out.
operationcwal789789 4 years ago
haha
wind sheer?
wat does wind sheer hav to do with wings?
wind sheer is sudden change in d speed or flow of air wich alters ur ground speed,.
he sure was rockin his wings to sm1,wich means acknowledgin smmin or saluting to sm1 or smmin lyk tht
sushantmohan 4 years ago
You must be one of those who think God created Earth in seven days and NASCAR is cool. If you don't know anything aircraft related subjects, which by your illiterate and groundless comment it is fully evident that you don't, shut your fucking hole.
operationcwal789789 4 years ago
oooooooooooooo.....
i see,.
yeah wel,if u say havin a FAA CPL with instrument rating on a mutli stil makes me know nothin about aircraft,then i wil accept tht
u ass,go chk faa site ,cpl number 3237455,thts me,...
nyways,WHAT do YOU know about planes?eh,..
and tell me,wat IS wind sheer,.?o God of all subjects
sushantmohan 4 years ago
operationcwal789789 you are an assclown. Wind Shear LMAO. Please don't use random words that you heard on discovery channel once and pretend like you know what they mean. sush is correct they are saluting.
numbthumbs 4 years ago