Unbelievably short takeoff by C-17 heavy

Unbelievably short takeoff by C-17 heavy

I'm not only impressed by the fact that the aircraft used the amount of runway a little cessna would've taken, but also of the great edit at the end! Amazing footage!

Years ago, I was at an air show at JBLM (joint base Lewis/McChord in WA state). The C-17 did a short takeoff/landing demo and I was stunned. I'm sure the plane was light for the demo, but wow... I had a hard time believing my eyes. The plane landed and hit full thrust reverse and came to a halt so fast that it boggled my mind that a plane so big could stop so quick.

Globemaster is insane, and my favourite heavy jet. Those engines are monstrous, probably because they need to provide combat-worthy manoeuvrability at high weights. I had the privilege to ride in one on a training flight with four (or it might have been six) 'rocks' and about twenty passengers in the back. Rocks are roughly 500 litre tanks of water used to simulate weight on the aircraft. With that weight onboard, we climbed out of RAF Mildenhall after several (many) go arounds with the altitude hold climb rate set at 4400fpm.

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I'm not only impressed by the fact that the aircraft used the amount of runway a little cessna would've taken, but also of the great edit at the end! Amazing footage!

Years ago, I was at an air show at JBLM (joint base Lewis/McChord in WA state). The C-17 did a short takeoff/landing demo and I was stunned. I'm sure the plane was light for the demo, but wow... I had a hard time believing my eyes. The plane landed and hit full thrust reverse and came to a halt so fast that it boggled my mind that a plane so big could stop so quick.

Globemaster is insane, and my favourite heavy jet. Those engines are monstrous, probably because they need to provide combat-worthy manoeuvrability at high weights. I had the privilege to ride in one on a training flight with four (or it might have been six) 'rocks' and about twenty passengers in the back. Rocks are roughly 500 litre tanks of water used to simulate weight on the aircraft. With that weight onboard, we climbed out of RAF Mildenhall after several (many) go arounds with the altitude hold climb rate set at 4400fpm.

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