Just How Big is America's C-17 Globemaster III

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  • čas přidán 21. 10. 2020
  • The C-17 Globemaster serves as the U.S. Air Force’s primary strategic lift aircraft for global transport of troops and equipment. The C-17 is capable of rapid strategic delivery of troops and all types of cargo to main operating bases or directly to forward bases in the deployment area. The aircraft can perform tactical airlift and airdrop missions and can transport litters and ambulatory patients during aeromedical evacuations when required. The inherent flexibility and performance of the C-17 force improve the ability of the total airlift system to fulfill the worldwide air mobility requirements of the United States.
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  • @mapoijitur1161
    @mapoijitur1161 Před 3 lety +413

    Man, she is sweet. Look at the capacity! She's a beast. Amazing.

    • @kmmediafactory
      @kmmediafactory Před 3 lety +8

      Not gonna lie....I never noticed how huge the tail was until this video!

    • @bestamerica
      @bestamerica Před 3 lety +5

      hi M P...
      '
      who is a word - SHE -...
      what she look alike and where she live in

    • @mapoijitur1161
      @mapoijitur1161 Před 3 lety +7

      @@bestamerica You need to read a book or research. "A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder." - Chester Nimitz CIC SoComPac. WWII

    • @bestamerica
      @bestamerica Před 3 lety +1

      @@mapoijitur1161
      hi M P...
      '
      dont use a word - YOU - on me...
      let explain about this vehicle...
      '' SHE '' is a NOT of any vehicles as airplanes / boats / ships / any vehicles at all...
      '' SHE '' is a only female as aunt / daughter / girl / her / huwoman / lady / mother / sister / wife / woman...
      not vehicle...
      remember that any females are SHE and not vehicles

    • @mapoijitur1161
      @mapoijitur1161 Před 3 lety +5

      @@bestamerica Get a life bub.

  • @parachute82nd
    @parachute82nd Před 3 lety +193

    I've jumped out of many of these. I even got to ride in the cockpit on the way into Afghanistan. They seem huge until you see the C-5

    • @lorenzomaximo1818
      @lorenzomaximo1818 Před 3 lety +13

      Roger that. C5M Super galaxy is way bigger Only to be outdone by the Antonov 225.

    • @phmwu7368
      @phmwu7368 Před 2 lety +3

      Jump the Jet ! ... used to be C-141 Starlifter... nowadays C-17 Globemaster 😉

    • @Kiyonce.Kartier
      @Kiyonce.Kartier Před 2 lety +4

      C5s dwarfs C17s. Those things are massive

    • @dubbro
      @dubbro Před 2 lety +13

      @@lorenzomaximo1818 this didn't age well...

    • @manabjaman6205
      @manabjaman6205 Před 2 lety

      Cap

  • @matthewrosengren2813
    @matthewrosengren2813 Před 2 lety +11

    My old man worked at McDonnell Douglas's Long Beach, CA Plant when the C-17 took it’s first flight. Interestingly, his father-in-law, my grandfather, worked there at the same time! So the Globemaster III has a special place in my heart🙂

  • @trashpanda314
    @trashpanda314 Před 2 lety +2

    As a airborne infantry vet, I loved the C-17. It was like a Cadillac to jump. I’ll always have love for the C-130, but the 17 is super smooth and everyone gets their own seat, as opposed to being piled on top of each other on a cargo net bench lol. We flew C-17s from Alaska to Australia non stop, did an in flight rig, then jumped into Australia on a training mission. A C-17 also carried me on a litter to Germany from Iraq when I was wounded in action. Between the C-5, C-17, and C-130 we have a great fleet of fixed wing cargo/utility aircraft.

  • @donaldyoumans275
    @donaldyoumans275 Před 3 lety +9

    I worked on the c17 back in 1991 for Douglas aircraft in long beach and my brother was a quality engineer in quatzite..Arizona the same time. Proud of what we did

    • @keithfreitas2983
      @keithfreitas2983 Před 2 lety

      Worked there also from 1986 to 2003 as one of the Flight Dispatcher. Dispached several of these in test and production besides the other aircraft MDC produced. Miss those days.

  • @johnskinner
    @johnskinner Před 2 lety +3

    I had the joy of sitting in the Captain's seat in a C17 when it last visited the Ysterplaat Airforce Base in South Africa, in 2008. It was fantastic. Thank you USAF. I now fly my own Globemaster in fsx. Blessings to all the guys that fly in this beautiful plane. Happy landings. John

  • @DJAYPAZ
    @DJAYPAZ Před 3 lety +25

    I’ve been inside a C17 at a local airshow. Inside the cargo area is a huge space that could accommodate a huge range of cargo. The rear ramp means many types of vehicles can be driven in. More impressive is it’s short take off and landing capability. To see the C17 do short field landing is awesome.

    • @cosmicraysshotsintothelight
      @cosmicraysshotsintothelight Před 3 lety

      Blown flaps... no "squash effect"

    • @manabjaman6205
      @manabjaman6205 Před 2 lety

      Cap

    • @kychristell1779
      @kychristell1779 Před 8 měsíci

      It makes you feel woozy though

    • @randallhoward3231
      @randallhoward3231 Před 6 měsíci

      Back in 1997 the Air Force had static air shows throughout the country, celebrating their 50th birthday. I went to the one at Standiford Field in Louisville, KY. I believe that was one of the greatest experiences that I've ever had. They had the C-17, the C-5 and they had the C-130 in every configuration that you could imagine. It was great.

  • @arnoldkellner2173
    @arnoldkellner2173 Před 2 lety +14

    These planes are so big they look like they are standing still when the fly over my home in Myrtle Beach on their way home to Charleston. I love these big girls 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    • @bears893
      @bears893 Před 2 lety

      I've seen a few in Texas near SeaWorld and fighter jets, what kind I don't know but they are LOUD even while being soooo high up.

  • @Elmantukas
    @Elmantukas Před 3 lety +19

    I work on these planes, their versatility and capability is outstanding, love them!

  • @mattienorml349
    @mattienorml349 Před 3 lety +183

    Pilot: Thank you for flying Globemaster, please remember to pull your ripcord upon exiting the vehicle..

  • @sky173
    @sky173 Před 3 lety +42

    I really hope someone models this for MSFS. I absolutely love this beast. Edit (2:35) : The C130 wingspan is a little bigger that 38 feet, lol.

    • @lixxxxit
      @lixxxxit Před 3 lety +6

      Yeah, by just under 100'......132'.
      Its the height that is 38'.

    • @_itsdiego8338
      @_itsdiego8338 Před 2 lety

      The c17 is in msfs it’s just a wip

  • @slyfer5321
    @slyfer5321 Před 3 lety +211

    "How big is the C-17 Globemaster III?"
    *Laughs in C-5 Galaxy*

    • @RealGeezzyy
      @RealGeezzyy Před 3 lety +11

      Laughs in not broken

    • @ImGoingSupersonic
      @ImGoingSupersonic Před 3 lety +1

      Is it bigger?

    • @slyfer5321
      @slyfer5321 Před 3 lety +6

      @@ImGoingSupersonic wayyyy bigger

    • @nurbnord7451
      @nurbnord7451 Před 3 lety +6

      the people who built the an225
      amatures

    • @jeffreyrose4240
      @jeffreyrose4240 Před 3 lety +14

      ​@@nurbnord7451 If we're keeping it real.. 223 C-17s is way more impressive then 1 AN-225.. not to mention we built like 130+ C-5 Galaxys... just saying

  • @asimsherzai
    @asimsherzai Před 3 lety +20

    Beautiful gorgeous beast, impressive takeoff American ingenuity bless the crew

  • @emilywagner5517
    @emilywagner5517 Před 3 lety +113

    My Airman son is a maintainer for these awesome planes.He loves any chance to go on a TDY

    • @cityofjoy8830
      @cityofjoy8830 Před 3 lety +3

      Superb 👍

    • @randomname1251
      @randomname1251 Před 3 lety +4

      Thank you for your family’s service. I hope your son remains safe. 🇺🇸

    • @robertryan1881
      @robertryan1881 Před 3 lety +4

      your son is awesome serving those big birds.

    • @emilywagner5517
      @emilywagner5517 Před 3 lety +5

      @@robertryan1881 Thank you !! He just received Airman of The Year award ,so so proud

    • @cosmicraysshotsintothelight
      @cosmicraysshotsintothelight Před 3 lety +1

      Just before McDD (original contractor) was bought by Boeing, right after they released this plane, I built two sets of 17 racks of test gear to simulate opens and shorts to test 17 of the 51 on board computers in these things. They had "peg boards" that allowed the testers to simulate any open or shorts in the cabling and demonstrate proper redundant system turnover and activation. It was a pretty cool job and we had two of the head-up units with us to make sure the slide trays on those two racks worked correctly. Lots and lots of inter-rack cable sets. It was a fun job and I am proud that I was a part of it. That was at a place called AP Labs in San Diego. I went on to work at ViaSat and made multiple sets of racks that were called "Stimulators" which were used down at the big Hughes anechoic chamber in Texas to test the F-22 and F-35 and B-1, etc. Hundreds of channels synched up to nanoseconds of each other. That was like 9 racks each and I built three sets of them.

  • @bill9540
    @bill9540 Před 3 lety +72

    NOTE: A C-130 is NOT 97’ long with a wingspan of 38’10”. Wrong, that is the HEIGHT. The wingspan is over 132’.

    • @adamdarbro1
      @adamdarbro1 Před 3 lety +6

      I was about to say that lol.

    • @arthurknustgraichen3430
      @arthurknustgraichen3430 Před 3 lety +8

      Was looking for this comment. ^^

    • @waynesmith3754
      @waynesmith3754 Před 3 lety +4

      Yea..that sort of Stood Out Immediately

    • @daveboyers4549
      @daveboyers4549 Před 3 lety +5

      The amazing thing is that the copy writer, the announcer, the CGI guy, the director, the editor, NONE OF THEM caught this glaring error. Wow.

    • @afcgeo882
      @afcgeo882 Před 3 lety +3

      @@daveboyers4549 None of them know this info instinctively, so how could they? This was written in the script incorrectly.

  • @ilsebader7356
    @ilsebader7356 Před 2 lety +2

    These videos help me respect our military over and over and over again

  • @nicholasmarino1733
    @nicholasmarino1733 Před 2 lety +1

    Hi, an outstanding example of American military aviation. The BEST in the world!!!!!!

  • @brucel399
    @brucel399 Před 3 lety +7

    Helped build sections for these at the Pueblo Colorado plant back in 94-95. Even got to ride in one when the Air Force gave appreciation rides to the workers

  • @DisHammerhand
    @DisHammerhand Před měsícem

    There's one flying around with a dent in her tail. That's where my paratrooper son got blown into the tail during a very windy jump. His helmet made contact. He was scrambled a bit but walked away and jumped another day. Glad he's done with that job and gone on to an occupation that is not as hazardous and pays better.
    The C17 is still one of my favorite aircraft.

  • @debferguson7354
    @debferguson7354 Před 2 lety +1

    💜💜💜❤️❤️❤️💞💞💞👏👏👏👍👍👍💪💪💪🙏🙏🙏✝️✝️✝️💯💯💯🤗🤗🤗🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😻 America is #1 country in the world!! I am so proud of all our Americans military heroes who serving in the country!!! Love all of them! Thank you for all your service!!! Amen! 🙏🙏🙏💯

  • @koori3085
    @koori3085 Před 3 lety +6

    Amazing aircraft, was at Charleston AFB in '93 for the Thunderbirds airshow when they showed her off for the first time. Everyone was gasping! Left 100 feet off the C-130 wingspan btw.

  • @CarlinDontCare
    @CarlinDontCare Před 3 lety +34

    The C-17 is the coolest of all cargo planes! It’s agile, fast, powerful and beautiful. The C-17 it’s the Corvette in the airplane world.

    • @nowthatsjustducky
      @nowthatsjustducky Před 2 lety

      I think the Corvette title likely goes to the 130, as much as I do love the 17...

    • @glenantrim5728
      @glenantrim5728 Před 2 lety +1

      C-17 is the iron garbage. Simply junk.

    • @Marvin5554
      @Marvin5554 Před 2 lety +1

      @@glenantrim5728 I fly on em for work and can honestly say that is frankly not true, their capabilities are friggin insane.

    • @rayjames6096
      @rayjames6096 Před 2 lety

      The widows on it are the same windows from the DC-10.

  • @Excelgam
    @Excelgam Před 2 lety +4

    I went side the cargo bay of the C17 while attending an air show. My biggest impression was “it was much smaller than I expected” especially compared to the bigger airliners.

  • @jeeckus13
    @jeeckus13 Před 3 lety +41

    These fly over my house every once in a while
    It’s pretty cool

    • @sgperformer
      @sgperformer Před 3 lety +1

      Mine as well. They are absolutely MASSIVE in the sky.

    • @sgperformer
      @sgperformer Před 3 lety +3

      @Bail 10k
      and the earth is flat right?

    • @sgperformer
      @sgperformer Před 3 lety +3

      @Bail 10k
      actually you are right, the exhaust of those massive engines definitely poop toxic chemicals into our atmosphere. But to think they are purposefully spraying toxic chemicals on the people is just childish. They fly over because they are constantly training. However I will say again those massive engines definitely poop toxins into our atmosphere and that really sucks!

    • @sgperformer
      @sgperformer Před 3 lety +3

      @Bail 10k
      well Bail, first of all I typed spews and my jackass spellcheck put poops. I have to
      turn off my spell check for sure. Next, chemicals you are referring to are called carcinogens and teratogens, if these things are trying to control the population they sure are doing a lousy job. And if that’s what they are doin we would expect to see a massive number of cancers and baby deformations, but these are both declining. And how exactly do you think they are controlling the population? This is a question asked in goodwill, and I am truly interested. If they were trying to control populations they would be flying routinely over Bangladesh, China and India, not the USA.

    • @sgperformer
      @sgperformer Před 3 lety +3

      moreover bail, dumping carcinogens and teratogens over populations would be a horribly inefficient way of controlling populations. The deep state would poison our drinking water, not the air.

  • @kennethdelfin1293
    @kennethdelfin1293 Před 2 lety +20

    I know why youre all here in light of recent times.

  • @massmike11
    @massmike11 Před 3 lety +14

    I live just on the other side of the fence from joint base lewis mcchords runway. So i see these buggers every day and night. They are suprisingly quite

    • @user-kn3cy1oz9x
      @user-kn3cy1oz9x Před 3 lety +1

      They are quite quiet?

    • @davidpearson3304
      @davidpearson3304 Před 3 lety +1

      I live right by Joint Base Charleston and see them daily as well. You are right they are very quiet, don’t even really hear them anymore.....now when a fighter comes or goes that’s a whole different story....they are loud.

    • @afcgeo882
      @afcgeo882 Před 3 lety

      @@davidpearson3304 Turbofan vs jet engines.

  • @mwitarijob1557
    @mwitarijob1557 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Projection of power, c17 is a magestic plane

  • @monsterdoc
    @monsterdoc Před 3 lety +15

    Without a doubt, the best plane out there! The capabilities are endless.

    • @dennisschreiber7663
      @dennisschreiber7663 Před 2 lety

      Wrong quack fan! GKG!

    • @monsterdoc
      @monsterdoc Před 2 lety

      @@dennisschreiber7663 HA! The Queens will miss the playoffs again this year as well so what then? LOL

  • @TD402dd
    @TD402dd Před 2 lety +3

    I think of comparisons: it's about the same length of a C-141 but much fatter and wider for larger cargo. It's about 2/3 the size of the C-5 which performed amazingly in Vietnam and other places.

  • @NothingMaster
    @NothingMaster Před 3 lety +13

    Respect for the troops for sitting 19 hours straight on those tiny seats with extremely limited legroom. How does the military prepare for the very real possibility of deep vein thrombosis under those situations?

    • @thesirmaddog8209
      @thesirmaddog8209 Před 3 lety

      You will never know unless you are in the know... Most the time even the ones jumping only know they are about to jump out of a perfectly flying aircraft

    • @xzabath1
      @xzabath1 Před 3 lety +5

      Might be an issue for us lazy turds watching CZcams, probably not for these in shape guys and gals. Hehe.

    • @dmilz1001
      @dmilz1001 Před 3 lety +1

      They have crews so they can switch every few hours. To get shut eye and to streach your legs out and they're also in top shape as well

    • @afcgeo882
      @afcgeo882 Před 3 lety

      Laying on the floor/ramp is authorized and even encouraged. Guys who are jumping never sit that long. They come from much closer in. While these planes can fly that long, they pretty much never do. Crew time-outs when it comes to flying time and our bases along the way means that it has a chance to land, refuel, crew rest, etc.

  • @lukerrrrr
    @lukerrrrr Před 3 lety +45

    wow that plane looks awesome

  • @ljsmixbox44
    @ljsmixbox44 Před rokem

    THE C-17 IS PURE VICIOUS !!!!

  • @climatepurification
    @climatepurification Před 2 lety +7

    My last deployment I was supervising force protection team in Afghanistan. One day I was managing the checkpoint for aircraft traffic entering the active runway, keeping TCN (Third Country Nationals) construction crewmembers from driving vehicles where they weren't supposed to. Had a younger group of military/civilian security on site that weren't as experienced with confrontation. As I was managing the site, I had a TCN blow through our checkpoint on a tractor as a C-17 was approaching the active runway. I had to run up from the opposing checkpoint and charge my weapon in front of his to face to get him to stop. Any other military member would have taken the opportunity to shoot in the desert and get a medal but luckily for him I had enough time to think and sort out my aggression out there beforehand. He drove straight towards me but I charged up and was half a second from blowing his head off. He went back to the first checkpoint, I remember seeing the faces of the C-17 crew members as I escorted the driver back to checkpoint. Found out later the tractor driver got kicked off base 6 months earlier for running over and killing his fellow construction worker with an "earth mover" blade. If I did not realize how we control our own actions whether military or civilian and have the power to make decisions above general authority, I would have made a poorer decision that day. Killing is a final option, not the first.

    • @cavaleermountaineer3839
      @cavaleermountaineer3839 Před rokem

      Excellent story and the ending is to me, what police officers need to be taught and trained.

  • @djizzah
    @djizzah Před 2 lety +6

    Fantastic work horse, so useful, here in Australia our airforce have a few, we love them!!

    • @EricJh21690
      @EricJh21690 Před 2 lety +2

      As an American who would love to visit Australia one day, it makes me happy to hear such..much love & peace from Boston ✌🏽

  • @haimbenavraham1502
    @haimbenavraham1502 Před 2 lety +2

    After 19 hours in the air, I cannot imagine the joy of the paratroopers having a relief leak on the ground.

    • @1m3agle
      @1m3agle Před 2 lety +1

      there's a bathroom on the 17

    • @c17nav
      @c17nav Před 5 měsíci

      @@1m3agle More than the aircraft's built-in lavatory is necessary at times. When the mission requires added capability, an Air Transportable Galley/Lavatory (ATGL), a Distinguished Visitor (DV) pallet, or a Command and Control (C2) Module can be rolled on. These have lavatories and increased waste storage.

  • @jamjardj1974
    @jamjardj1974 Před 2 lety +2

    Hard to believe this amazing aeroplane is almost 30 years old! Love it. Shame they don’t build them anymore.

    • @ljsmixbox44
      @ljsmixbox44 Před rokem +1

      I've seen it in the air..look like the C-17 is not moving because it's so big.
      I have the C-17 RC plane.

  • @oneshotme
    @oneshotme Před 3 lety +3

    Enjoyed your video so I gave it a Thumbs Up

  • @take5th
    @take5th Před 3 lety +6

    I worked as a structural design engineer for MacDac on the wing design program (I designed the fittings that attach the flaps to the wing). Extremely thin wing for a plane this size, but still pretty roomy to design within compared to most other wings I’ve worked on! Very successful design overall, obviously.

    • @gardensnob1
      @gardensnob1 Před 3 lety

      I procured Landing Gear for Spares/fleet readiness. She’s an amazing ship

    • @keithfreitas2983
      @keithfreitas2983 Před 2 lety

      Was one of the Flight Dispatchers for Flight Test and Production from 1987 to 2002 Long Beach MDC for all aircraft coming out of LGB and flight test facilities.

  • @RyanBomar
    @RyanBomar Před 3 lety +5

    I'm just glad you got Seth Rogan to do the voiceover!
    In all seriousness, awesome video!

  • @xemhzx
    @xemhzx Před 3 lety +8

    0:37 oh no worries, just called my jet in just cause 4.

  • @tedster1956
    @tedster1956 Před 3 lety +6

    Back in my USAF days I got to go inside this aircraft and you really can't appreciate the size until your standing inside the cargo hold. It's a bad-ass!

  • @dwightrucker3299
    @dwightrucker3299 Před 3 lety +6

    Rode it a few times in Iraq. Tactical take offs and landings can put tears in your eyes with this thing. Lol

  • @Kilo-ht9oq
    @Kilo-ht9oq Před 2 lety

    Powerful Millitary in the World .watching from AFRICA.

  • @johnbarrios1598
    @johnbarrios1598 Před 3 lety +2

    I second that thought this plane looks awesome... I love aviation.. Great video.

  • @jasenwright1178
    @jasenwright1178 Před 2 lety +3

    Got onboard a few of these whilst visiting U Tapao Airbase in Thailand. The flight crew were excellent gentlemen that represented the USA to the fullest! Great aircraft and well educated polite crew! Well done USA!

  • @callmewheels4806
    @callmewheels4806 Před 3 lety +6

    You may want to sharpen the ol’ pencil when measuring the C-130 wingspan.
    38’ foot wingspan is a Tad narrow for any operational C-130.
    I’ve seen a few that hit the tarmac that 38’ is a genuine measurement for overall wingspan...

  • @amandahirschfeld7382
    @amandahirschfeld7382 Před 2 lety +2

    Beautiful, amazing how they unload from the sky.

  • @josephpacchetti5997
    @josephpacchetti5997 Před rokem +1

    Awesome Plane, Thanks Sam and crew. 👍 🇺🇸

  • @richardlahan7068
    @richardlahan7068 Před 3 lety +19

    I grew up in the Lowcountry of South Carolina and remember when these replaced the C-141s.

  • @mayhem3649
    @mayhem3649 Před 3 lety +17

    "it's tiny" -C5 Loadmaster

    • @afcgeo882
      @afcgeo882 Před 3 lety

      The AN-225 loadmaster said the same about the Galaxy.

    • @thomasblankinship98
      @thomasblankinship98 Před 3 lety +2

      @@afcgeo882 it was built to be bigger than the C5 for bragging rights. There are only 2 and one is now used for scavenging parts to keep the other flying.

    • @afcgeo882
      @afcgeo882 Před 3 lety

      @@thomasblankinship98 Only a single AN-225 was ever made, bud, and even the AN-124 is bigger than the C-5. The other was never operational. It was never completed. The 225 was designed to carry rocket boosters and the Buran space shuttle. 55 AN-124s were built and they were never made to one-up the C-5 as it was meant to be a civilian outsized cargo carrier from the start, unlike the C-5 which was only meant to be military. Russia is now designing its own, updated, military AN-124-102.

    • @alpearson9158
      @alpearson9158 Před 2 lety

      HMM but still flying!

    • @keithfreitas2983
      @keithfreitas2983 Před 2 lety

      It not whether it's bigger or smaller. It was designed to support ground troops so it's capability is to land on gravel, dirt and short runways. To get in and out fast with equipment and supplies.

  • @mohanpadma1
    @mohanpadma1 Před 2 lety

    Huge Powerful Elephants. Amazing and great to watch. Thank you.

  • @agdrumer
    @agdrumer Před 2 lety +1

    What an amazing plane!!.... I was an aircraft electrician on left wing of the prototype (stinger) C-17 at Mc Donnell Douglas plant in Long Beach, CA in the early 90's , I was the only AcE on 2nd shift, got to work with design engineers and inspectors, rerouting electrical wire assemblies & mounting support points for both leading and trailing edge, from fuselage joint to wing tip ...more. wire than any U.S. Military cargo aircraft do to it's FBW design. Was a great experience!!!!

    • @keithfreitas2983
      @keithfreitas2983 Před 2 lety +1

      Worked there from 1987 to 2002 as a Flight Dispatcher Flight Test & Production.

    • @agdrumer
      @agdrumer Před 2 lety

      @@keithfreitas2983 @ Long Beach Airport?? .... How cool is that!!

  • @shogunzftw7655
    @shogunzftw7655 Před 2 lety +8

    I remember my first time flying on a globe master it was freaking huge

  • @stevecoleman2250
    @stevecoleman2250 Před 3 lety +21

    And thank God the Royal Australian Air Force has 8 of them.

  • @brieflyexplainedofficial
    @brieflyexplainedofficial Před 3 lety +2

    Great Information, thanks

  • @wemcal
    @wemcal Před 3 lety +3

    We have them here 164th .. they are huge and we sit and watch the routine runs as the fly around the city

  • @TheOneTrueSpLiT
    @TheOneTrueSpLiT Před 3 lety +3

    I was part of the software team at GEC-Avionics for the HUD for this big-ole-gal and can clearly remember watching the maiden flight of P1 (with her long pointy red/white stripped nose probey thing) on 15 September 1991 and have a wall poster from McDonnell Douglas as a "thank you" for getting her to that major milestone. A few weeks later, Jane's did an article of that first test flight and in it was a picture underneath which was the caption "GEC's HUD in TOGA mode showing FMA windows", the picture was a completely blank black square - so not too far from the truth at that time ;-)

    • @cosmicraysshotsintothelight
      @cosmicraysshotsintothelight Před 3 lety +1

      I made simulator racks for those HUDs that they bought from AP Labs right before the buy out by Boeing. It had two mount slides on it and a peg board to simulate opens and shorts to ensure that the redundant systems kicked in and worked right. Other racks for 16 of the onboard systems to check proper redundant system operation as well. Two sets of each, so they even ordered the test systems in redundant fashion. :-)

    • @TheOneTrueSpLiT
      @TheOneTrueSpLiT Před 3 lety

      @@cosmicraysshotsintothelight Are you implying my software could fail? LOL!!! 😉

    • @cosmicraysshotsintothelight
      @cosmicraysshotsintothelight Před 3 lety +1

      @@TheOneTrueSpLiT It simulated hardware shorts and opens in the interconnect cables on 17 of the 51 onboard computers, and would be used to prove that your software actually works to enable the redundant standby systems. But hey, you may not even have written any of that. It could be 'hard wired' or in firmware. So you probably can't even tell me about it. :-P

    • @TheOneTrueSpLiT
      @TheOneTrueSpLiT Před 3 lety

      @@cosmicraysshotsintothelight We had an "Independent Test Group" who were a mix of hardware and software engineers that had one of our HUDs connected to a test bench consisting of various Logic Analysers and bespoke gear to give the HUD simulated data in order to test all of the HUD's functionality, as well as BIT, we even had a joystick connected to the test bench so we could "fly" the HUD while giving it the data for all sorts of simulated scenarios. That's as much involvement I had with the test setups, sure I had to do unit and integration test on the modules of code but other than "flying" the HUD that's as much involvement I had with the hardware - I never really understood most of it and still don't to this day, and the same applies for networks, mobile phones and printers!

    • @cosmicraysshotsintothelight
      @cosmicraysshotsintothelight Před 3 lety

      @@TheOneTrueSpLiT These were racks meant to test for interconnect cable failures and were far more simple than your "stimulation" equipment. Orders of magnitude more simple. They were simply meant to test the changeover function of how redundant hardware sets were/are supposed to operate. They had a pegboard where all the cables entered and exited and small 'shorting bars' in place to show normal connects and then to simulate a cabling short or open by (mis)placing or removing them, to see if the second unit kicked in. So we had two slide mounts on each rack made for each type of on board computer and pegboards above each as break out boxes for the cabling. Very simple stuff and no real electronic diagnostic hardware at all, IIRC. There was a master unit which was, IIR a VAX/VMS chassis with customer supplied boards and software. Probably written and supplied by yous guys. :-)

  • @mrcoolepikkman6397
    @mrcoolepikkman6397 Před 3 lety +31

    May i just say my goodness the thing is gorgeous
    And first

  • @diwanshu18
    @diwanshu18 Před 2 lety +2

    I have seen this plane very closely and I love how huge it is

  • @robertlafnear4865
    @robertlafnear4865 Před 2 lety

    Lucky me I lived just down the road from the Long Beach Plant..... saw lots of these come off the line when I drove to work......... NICE PLANE.......... Nice Video, Thank You.

  • @z0phi3l
    @z0phi3l Před 3 lety +6

    Got to hang out in one back in 94 when they were doing heavy drop testing at Ft Campbell
    Never got to jump from one

    • @bestamerica
      @bestamerica Před 3 lety

      hi A P...
      '
      i was live in clarksville and went to fort campbell army base with my army daughter in 2007 to 2008

  • @jeffreyallen9626
    @jeffreyallen9626 Před 3 lety +3

    Beautiful plane our military rocks🙏❤

  • @cq7415
    @cq7415 Před rokem

    Nice. Thanks for sharing.

  • @philhand5830
    @philhand5830 Před měsícem

    I was the final marshaler on the recovery team for the very first three C-17s in the Air Force inventory at Charleston AFB.

  • @shaggyduder
    @shaggyduder Před 3 lety +5

    You put together a really good video, everyone should take lessons from You. Never a board moment.

  • @dano9060
    @dano9060 Před 3 lety +3

    Beautiful bird. Wow!!!

  • @debarpitchandan2026
    @debarpitchandan2026 Před 2 lety +2

    As rightly quoted by an Indian Air Force Pilot, she's a "tank that handles like a Ferrari"❤️🇮🇳

  • @bronyguy6103
    @bronyguy6103 Před 3 lety

    Thank you for your service

  • @Peichen01
    @Peichen01 Před 3 lety +3

    A very well balanced plane

  • @jenko1417
    @jenko1417 Před 3 lety +4

    She is massive, we were just loading up secret service vehicles on the c-17 after trumps rally in Arizona and she’s a big girl

  • @Chris_at_Home
    @Chris_at_Home Před 3 lety +2

    I love watching them flying low over our home doing their maneuvering to a drop zone 20 miles away. Many times there are 2 or 3 closely spaced.

  • @52stevedo4
    @52stevedo4 Před 2 lety

    Simply amazing!

  • @bradley772
    @bradley772 Před 3 lety +10

    Like dad always said...
    When you join the military, they say they will put you behind a gun.
    In reality, they put you in front of someone else's gun.
    It's worth considering.
    Thanks Dad.

  • @dustynewman1
    @dustynewman1 Před 3 lety +4

    I live near Joint Base Charleston, and they fly over all the time.

  • @waynesmith3754
    @waynesmith3754 Před 3 lety

    Very Informative Video

  • @gerardmoran9560
    @gerardmoran9560 Před 2 lety +4

    Great video! Never flew it (old C-141 guy here). I think you missed the wingspan of the C-130 at 38'10". I'd add about 100'. Cheers

    • @gerardmoran9560
      @gerardmoran9560 Před 2 lety

      @@c17nav 141. Easy Carl, 10 out of 1 people are dyslexic.

    • @gerardmoran9560
      @gerardmoran9560 Před 2 lety

      @@c17nav I fixed my typo. XX MAS at CHS.

    • @gerardmoran9560
      @gerardmoran9560 Před 2 lety

      @@c17nav Interesting. Hope you got a few C-17 rides.

    • @gerardmoran9560
      @gerardmoran9560 Před 2 lety

      @@c17nav Sounds fun.

    • @c17nav
      @c17nav Před 2 lety +1

      @@gerardmoran9560 It was. Notice that I deleted my old posts, as they were spurred by your original. Cheers.

  • @coronapack
    @coronapack Před 3 lety +8

    Still half of a C5. C5 is beautiful.

    • @Randomy5428
      @Randomy5428 Před 3 lety

      It's not half the size of the c5 c17 is not way way smaller than the c5 both planes were parked near each other at an airshow I attended.The c17 is a big plane when you see it in person
      The c130 is the quite small in person but still bigger than your regional airliner

    • @coronapack
      @coronapack Před 3 lety

      @@Randomy5428 I'm aware of sizes. Ty for your input. C5 still better. Still the king. Miss the c141 the damn c17 replaced.
      I've ridden all 3.. C5 is my bitch.
      Out.

  • @carltonsargentii3956
    @carltonsargentii3956 Před 3 lety +1

    This plane is great to fly on, it is smooth flying and powerful. We used to live next to the active runway at FOB Speicher in Tikrit, Iraq and the C-17 was a regular guest. I had the privilege of watching it take off at night and that beast would rotate and accelerate at such a steep angle that it was comparable to a fighter jet taking off, and I noticed that even without Night Vision you could see the heat in the exhaust end glowing red! I flew as the only passenger once, from Hungary to Germany and I was invited up to the flight deck, I noticed that they had full-color weather radar and Nav, glass cockpit and really comfortable looking seats, NICE! We left Iraq on a C17 and as soon as we pulled off of the runway, the Threat Warning Reciever detected an anti-aircraft seeker targeting our aircraft and the pilot immediately deployed chaff and anti AA flares and he pulled it hard left and right banking maneuvers and for awhile dropped it down to the deck, of course, this was a total surprise to us because the pilot was too busy saving our lives and was unable to narrate the events in real-time! Anyhow, once we were out of danger he explained what we had just endured, and he and the rest of the crew received a great round of applause from all of us!

    • @highflyingbean
      @highflyingbean Před 3 lety

      no chaff but yes to flares and some other stuff :)

    • @c17nav
      @c17nav Před 3 lety

      There is no "Threat Warning Receiver" per se on the C-17. The defensive systems on the aircraft consist of the Missile Warning System, the Countermeasures Dispensing System, and the Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures system. To some degree they are integrated with each other.

    • @carltonsargentii3956
      @carltonsargentii3956 Před 3 lety

      @@c17nav I understand that "technically" the system is not termed a "threat warning receiver," however missiles are a "threat" and the system gives you some sort of "warning", rest assured I will never utilize the term "threat warning receiver" in regards to the C-17 ever again! I am an old Blackhawk guy and that is what the system was called. My apologies, folks for calling it a "Threat Warning Receiver", Lol!

  • @lalruatdikavarte7943
    @lalruatdikavarte7943 Před 3 lety

    Nice video and very informative and very entertaining and very satisfaction more videos.

  • @rebeccaharden6018
    @rebeccaharden6018 Před 2 lety +4

    I love to live near Charleston. We watch these guys daily. As said they look to be standing still above us. Such a thrill when they fly over.

  • @kevinbanks2795
    @kevinbanks2795 Před 3 lety +4

    It still amazing me how something as big as that can get off the ground wow

    • @waynesmith3754
      @waynesmith3754 Před 3 lety

      It is Called...LIFT

    • @nowthatsjustducky
      @nowthatsjustducky Před 2 lety

      Sally Field, of all people, explained it best back in 1967...
      “When lift plus thrust is greater than load plus drag … well, anything can fly.”

  • @DanielOrtiz-yy1mw
    @DanielOrtiz-yy1mw Před 2 lety

    Amazing video!

  • @that_impala_guy0490
    @that_impala_guy0490 Před 3 lety +8

    It’s the little brother of the c-5m

    • @thesirmaddog8209
      @thesirmaddog8209 Před 3 lety +4

      Well not really.... The Original order was to replace the C-130, C-141, and C-5... But as we know it only replaced the C-141

    • @bestamerica
      @bestamerica Před 3 lety

      hi T C...
      '
      who is a brother...
      airplane is a NO blood gene family root tree

    • @BilgePump
      @BilgePump Před 3 lety

      @@bestamerica ; well u did say family and u gotta admit its got balls.

    • @bestamerica
      @bestamerica Před 3 lety

      @@BilgePump
      hi B P...
      '
      dont use a letter word - U - on me...
      let explain about airplane is a not brother - not sister...
      what kind of balls

    • @afcgeo882
      @afcgeo882 Před 3 lety

      The C-5 is Lockheed, just like the C-130, but the C-5 is Boeing (McDonnell-Douglas), so they’re more cousins than brothers.

  • @redastrachan8978
    @redastrachan8978 Před 3 lety +5

    Big enough to carry a much needed question mark in the title?

  • @henrydavila3973
    @henrydavila3973 Před 3 lety +2

    América the most powerfull country ! Im the world ! Iam impressed ! Every thing they can make or invent !!

  • @JLanc1982
    @JLanc1982 Před rokem +1

    Solid bird! I got a few flights on these.When I was stationed in the Sianai back in 2015,we would load 2 blackhawk helicopters inside for a trip to Germany for heavy maintence. the clearance is literately inches from the top of the rotor head to the center of the wing internally. Very Tight squeeze.

  • @theodorevegh6030
    @theodorevegh6030 Před 2 lety +3

    Thank you to all of the people who designed and built the 223 C-17 Globe Master Jets in the USA Military. - TAV

  • @user-wb4wi7yz9s
    @user-wb4wi7yz9s Před 3 lety +3

    USA💪🏼🇺🇸💪🏼USA

  • @mrgold3591
    @mrgold3591 Před 2 lety

    I was at Fort Lewis, WA, back in early 90s. That was back when it was C-130, C-141, and C-5 were the main air lift. Saw this new transport plane doing "touch and go" at the Army airfield and I didn't know what it was.

  • @judefernandez827
    @judefernandez827 Před 3 lety +2

    My favourite aircraft with the B 52 .

  • @thecman26
    @thecman26 Před 3 lety +5

    It's really big!
    Especially when walking under the glide path when they're landing! They seemed to be coming in at 20mph and 20ft above us!

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      @ell442sugarbae8 Před 2 lety

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  • @lixxxxit
    @lixxxxit Před 3 lety +3

    The wingspan of the c-130 is 132 feet 7". Its the height that is 38'.

  • @JamieG.
    @JamieG. Před 2 lety

    Sat in the cockpit of one of these in RAF Brize Norton when I was about 12, great memory.

  • @user-kd8om6yy8z
    @user-kd8om6yy8z Před 2 lety +1

    самолет просто шикарный !!! Мерседес в небе !

  • @ronaldhoennicke6647
    @ronaldhoennicke6647 Před 3 lety +6

    The C-130's wingspan is not what's stated, it's 100+ feet larger.

    • @jonathanford9774
      @jonathanford9774 Před 3 lety

      The same guy claims he got more length but no woman will or can verify the claim

  • @HazzyBeats
    @HazzyBeats Před 2 lety +4

    big enough for 800 people

    • @p71collector
      @p71collector Před 2 lety +1

      Plus room for more in and around the landing gear.

    • @HazzyBeats
      @HazzyBeats Před 2 lety +2

      @@p71collector Thats right

  • @LiffeyKing
    @LiffeyKing Před 2 lety

    I had the privledge of a guided tour of a USAF C-17 by it's loadmaster at Farnborough Airshow.
    Awesome experience, awesome aircraft.
    🇺🇸 👏 🇬🇧

  •  Před 2 lety

    Love This , and thank U .. please more metric

  • @scottmarrs5720
    @scottmarrs5720 Před 3 lety +3

    Wingspan on the c-130 is wrong

  • @ibeattheleaves5005
    @ibeattheleaves5005 Před 3 lety +6

    19 hours just sitting there would suck.