“The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”

Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas


Tuesday, April 21, 2015

C17 Globemaster, surprise sighting


I just watched a USAF C17 Globemaster land in Birmingham. Not as big as the C5 Galaxy but damned impressive just the same.

5 comments:

Bill said...

Great airplane! I regret it's the only common cargo plane or tanker from my time in the ANG I never got a ride on.

Ed said...

I haven't seen one live before. It was very cool as it flew over me on final.

David said...

I flew on one from Cyprus to Incirlik AB, Turkey in 2003. I rather enjoyed it.

Ed said...

Dave, were you swinging around on the web seats in the hold like when we went to Turkey, or did they have seats for you?

David said...

Web seats. But it was a nice ride. Much better than any C-130 or C-141 ride I've ever had.