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« on: May 30, 2018, 11:57:55 EDT »

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/brMPAOQM6K0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/brMPAOQM6K0</a>

 
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« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2018, 07:26:32 EDT »

He's flying that jet like he has a stick in his hand - oh wat, he does!

60 degrees, safe and routine
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« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2018, 04:03:23 EDT »

I've flown on them in and out of both Kandahar and Bagram. The approach and departures are phenomenon,  they seem almost vertical and makes the an us pucker
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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2018, 06:38:02 EDT »

I've flown on them in and out of both Kandahar and Bagram. The approach and departures are phenomenon,  they seem almost vertical and makes the an us pucker
They have ability to open the cascade reversers in flight (they have cascade and bucket reversers on the engines).  When they do that, it mimics the space shuttle re-entry, even sounds somewhat like the shuttle
For a test once they descended from 39,000 feet to 500 feet (AGL) in <3 minutes. (The test flight crew screwed up so we had to repeat the test the next flight as the geometry wasn't correct)
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« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2018, 10:35:36 EDT »

The C-5 answers:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/XWp0prT9RN4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/XWp0prT9RN4</a>
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« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2018, 10:51:43 EDT »

The C-5 answers:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/XWp0prT9RN4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/XWp0prT9RN4</a>
I'm suing you for the short in my keyboard from laughing so hard I cried!
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« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2018, 02:37:21 EDT »

Awesome stuff.   
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« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2018, 05:16:10 EDT »

The C-5 answers:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/XWp0prT9RN4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/v/XWp0prT9RN4</a>

Back in the ancient days when I was flying Space A, the words of wisdom were "don't let the dispatcher schedule you on a C-5, unless you like 4 hour delays or outright cancellations"!
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« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2018, 07:03:23 EDT »

Back in the ancient days when I was flying Space A, the words of wisdom were "don't let the dispatcher schedule you on a C-5, unless you like 4 hour delays or outright cancellations"!

I understand that the new M models are much more reliable. But back when I was in the AF, they couldn't even fill a C-5 beyond 50% of its rated load for fear of the wings failing. That program has proven to be a huge money pit.
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