You don't have to be an aviation enthusiast to get a thrill out of watching this massive cargo aircraft take off! WOW, this big bird takes off in the air like she owns it, well, she probably does! Even the sound of the Globemaster slipping the surly bonds of Earth rumbles through you as she slips up into the wild blue. I guess with all that power, the C-17 doesn't have to eat a lot of runway before just lifting up effortlessly, amazing!
🌄 If "you own the sky," then tell us who needs to clean up the junk from rocket launches that is floating around in space. How many countries are responsible and what is their share? Would tRump's "space force" clean up for the US? No new projects, no trips to the moon or Mars should be financed until there's a substantial cleanup of space debris.
Was one of the McDonnell Douglas FAA Aircraft Dispatchers durung the Flight Test Program for the C-17 out of Long Beach CA. 1st fuselage was put in hanger to break wings off, 2nd for mechanical and the 3rd for electronic testing. Eventually program moved to Edwards AFB. Initial flight test done out over the Pacific in an area south of San Diego, called W291. Then went world wide for cold and hot weather testing. Aircraft did re-lights, hardovers, dives steep turns, hard landings, aborted takeoffs, standing water takeoffs and landings. Multi cargo drops at different altitudes like 50 feet above the runway. Every C-17 that came off the Production line did a 3 - 6 hour systems flight test before delivery to the Air Force.
We built the C17 runway and parking at marine camp Dwyer in south Afghanistan. Very thick runway. Too bad Biden wasted all our Taxpayer funds giving it back to the Taliban. Stupid
I watched a Hercules take off with a hostage rescue pack. Solid Propellent booster Rockets for really really short take off. Pilot lined up on runway gave it full power on all four turbo props and almost as soon as everything was going full power and rolling the pilot hit the JATO button. Four or six cannot remember rockets fired and the plane accelerated and took off, it almost went up vertically. Boosters burned for it seemed about 30 seconds. Pilot nosed down to level flight just before the JATO packs burned out and flew away as if nothing happened. It looked like the Space Shuttle taking off, awesome. Saw it at Oceana Air base in Virginia Beach many years ago.
They fly low over my house, too. Close enough I can see the rivets and the pilots....although, it’s been quiet here with no activity in about three weeks.
I grew up hearing these and other planes take off near Travis AFB. I love them. To see something so massive as a C-17 or C-5 take off, while using such a small percentage of the runway, is incredible. And the sound they make is fantastic. Seriously I enjoy watching these take off and land as much as fighter jets. Edit: I can tell by the comments that I may have been to vague and the meaning is misunderstood. Hopefully this clarifies it.
short runway? That's runway 16 in Zürich which is 3700 meters long, longer than the longest at Travis AFB (3350 meters) and long enough for basically every plane to start and land.
to be honest, that was a normal take off for a C-17. I see them everyday, that was not a full military power takeoff where they stand it on its tail and just climb
@@schrap72 The C-5 is big, but the C-17 moves like a fighter. Never seen a C-5 do a 360 turn at 90 degrees. Love all those big birds. I even look up when a C-130 flies by, lol
@@neilhagerman1217 C-130, you can hear it coming before it get there. C-130 does aerial spraying for mosquitoes when it gets bad down here. Reserve unit out of Ohio. Under 500ft AGL.
SHE IS GORGEOUS !! I HAD ONE FLY OVER OUR HOUSE ALONG WITH 2 C-5 GALAXIES BEFORE. NEVER WILL FORGET THOSE 2 EVENTS...EVER. GOOSEBUMPS, CHILLS, TEARS BECAUSE I AM THE MILITARY 'S. NUMBER 1 FAN 💜💜💜
I went to an airshow at homstead air base once.. they had the thunderbirds, F15s, F16s, F18s etc etc.. all kinds of incredibly cool planes putting on shows and the most impressive thing was seeing the C17 do a short take-off and landing.. that thing stops on a dime and takes off like the space shuttle Lol..
My husband and I were stationed at Homestead AFB back in 1990 and the air show I went in 1991 had the thunderbirds. The cool thing about Homestead it was a base that had fighter jets and on any given day they would fly over our house. It was so cool to watch!
I can relate to your statement I remember fort Lauderdale Air show especially seeing the stealth bomber it was like out of this world definitely was in aww
The C-17 is a Vicious Warrior Aircraft. Great takeoff. And more so..I liked how the pilot banked into the clouds at the end of the video. It looked like the end of a movie. 👍🏽
Back in 1991, I went to an air show at Reese AFB - Lubbock. I saw the Blue Angels (F-18), one of the first public displays of a U2, B-1, and even a F-119 flyover. The most entertaining part of the show was the JATO take-off of a C-130. It’s unbelievable how quickly these big birds can get airborne.
Yep. I grew up in Long Beach, CA (where they were made, (K) LGB airport) watching these take off all the time over my house! My dad worked supporting this program at McDonnell Douglas (and later Boeing of course) but they were something special when they took off. Later when I worked at the airport I'd see them doing pre-delivery tests like high speed taxis on the active runway and some wild high-performance takeoffs, often with a winged "wave" good-bye upon departing... I remember the last one leaving the plant. A sad day for sure for many of the die-hard Douglas-era people and everyone else alike... It's always a pleasure when they visit and come back home, usually for a local airshow or just a fuel up here. One of the few things I used to enjoy about living here...
I appreciate the way you creatively edit so we only see it once it's already been rolling and we don't know how long it's actually been doing it. It's not like you were short on footage or time because you made us watch while every single engine started up but just before it actually did the takeoff you cut a bit away so we can't tell how long it's been rolling.
Seems some people have no idea how huge this C17 is and so very little runway it took for it to rotate. And if this doesn't impress you, you should see the C5 fly. It actually looks like it is stopped in the air it is so huge.
@@jamesplymire5342 I want to get back to Dover one day. I'm told one of the B-17s my dad flew in is restored and outside the front gate. Her name is "Sleepy Time Gal."
I live close to Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina and the C-17s are a staple here. You don’t even have to look up to know one is going over since they are so incredibly loud.
I lived in Germany for 2 years. I loved those dreary days like what is shown here. Gawd I miss that place!! The weather, the people, the night life, the small villages, amazing place!
My mother was a full blooded German, of German parents, born in America, but I have always been impressed by the things Germans build! First quality, and usually the best design over all others! Best tanks, aircraft, automobiles, whatever! I am proud of my German heritage, other than the destruction caused by that NAZI bastard HITLER!🤬🤬
I lived there for 7 years. Two tours of 4 and 3 years when my father was in the US Army. Back in the 70’s and early 80’s. I loved those dreary days too! One out of three days was like this. I liked the sunny days also. Just had the best time as a kid living on a US Army post housing area. Loved Germany. The best of times.
Mom is from Ochsenfürt and würzburg. Dads grandparents from isernia and castelvecchio subequo/Abruzzi region. Love the people food, towns, rivers, and culture of Europe. We could always tell we were coming up on an American convoy on the Autobahn by the smoke cloud! Lol.
@@bobpaulino4714 I'm sure this sounds silly ( meaning I can google anything for instant answers) but is the Autobahn like I hear , speed is not limited so any speed you want to drive is good ? Thanks just curious
@@rockybarnes307 there are areas with speed restrictions. Many areas have no limit -- just little white crosses on the side of the highway to show you where someone who thought that they were a competent driver took their last breath.
Most likely its just another day at the office for the pilots and crew, but for me you have to be a genius to learn and fly that aircraft. JUST AMAZING to watch that big bird taxi and takeoff.
Good point. This is no ordinary plane. It take a lot of skills to fly this big bird. I like this pilot takeoff. He cruised that big C-17 on up into the wind. He didn't takeoff steep and bank right away. He didn't rush...that's why the takeoff look so beautiful. This look like the end of a movie because right at the end of this video..he bank. Now that's patience.
That smoke you see at the beginning is probably de-icer. I'm sure that if this was January in Zurich, it was cold enough to gather condensation and the water would freeze in the engines . They use de-icer to safely warm up the engines. As the engine heats up, it burns the de-icer and turns it to smoke. p.s. The take off looked pretty normal to me.
Plane was literally designed to use dirt runways and to be able to land and takeoff in the same distance as a C-130. Best military cargo lifter in the world.
Thats a bit too much of an overstatement because best needs various criterias to be decided upon. For a military cargo, it can be MTOW, STOL, Cargo Volume, altitude adaptability, speed of loading/unloading etc and even after that being able to decide a best in ge world is highly questionable. All militaries use the cargo aircraft that best suits their needs. There isn't any one defined 'best' that can fit in any pair of shoes.
@@bubba9384 yes sir, but you have only seen your own air force,ask any other guy from the other airforce that uses a different airlifter and chances are that they would answer differently. Every airforce has its own needs and specifications and i hope you would know that or else the aircraft composition of all airforce a would be more or less similar.
@@fieldmarshal7298 nope... I have loaded most military heavy llifter aircraft at some point, the only one I haven't loaded at least once is the AN-225 that I know of. Yea the C-17 isen't the best for every job, but overall it is the best heavy lifter around. And from what I've seen, heard from pilots, and experianced riding in a handful of heavy lifters it is the best flyer in its weight catagory. It's like comparing a lambo to a mustang...
I worked at the Long Beach assembly plant. Been inside a C17. Big enough to roll 2 sherman tanks inside. Powerful enough to fly them. Incredible engineering.
Was one of the FAA Flight Dispatchers during the program. Got to jumpseat on some of the flights after all the flight testing was done. Obviously was min crew during testing even at Edwards. One of the greatest aircraft built be MDC. To bad it didn't go Commercial.
All the way through I was thinking how that lumbering beast of a plane was going to get off the ground. The answer of course was "Easily". Amazing.. Thank you for sharing.
Was a Aircraft Dispatcher at DAC when this was in flight test out of Long Beach CA. Then at Edwards AFB. Like all test flights it went around the world to very cold to very hot places. Doing stalls, engine re-lights hard overs in and area out in the Pacific called W29,1 just south of San Diego. Hard and standing water landings and tail dragging takeoffs and brake tests. 3nd aircraft built was used for electronic testing. The first was put in a hanger to see when the wings brokeoff and the 2nd was used for mechanical testing. Every C-17 off the assembly line went through a Production Flight Test before delivery.
Thanks for the upload...It looks like a beast! A great replacement for the C141 Which I found out in research...:) I worked C5's and 141's in the USAF...I have never seen a C17 in person...I'm surprised how closely they resemble the C-5, I almost thought it was mislabeled ..:)...I did some checking and realized why; I got out in 86, So I guess that's why, since they didn't get added till 91... 60th AMS Travis AFB 81-85
@@c17nav :)...Travis was a great base! There was a great bar not too far outside the gates... I can't recall the name, They had pool tables and lots of girls...You may know my old Roomy, Dennis Reichel He Became a navigator after being in Electric Shop...I wish I had listened to my old man and became a lifer...That retirement check would be sweet to be coming in every month! :)...Good health and freedom to you and yours!
A C-17 is designed to carry tons and tons of cargo. When empty it is very light, relatively speaking. With the engines at maximum thrust and unloaded, it can probably fly straight up after taking off.
Nope. Light weight is twice the thrust that the engines can produce so straight up could only be done from a level flight for a very short amount of time before it stalled.
@@gravelydon7072 Like the F-16. The F-16 can travel very fast and accelerate vertically until it reaches its service ceiling where the air is too thin and the engine's thrust decreases to the point of stalling because of insufficient thrust. With a C-17, it is probably more a matter of if its air frame could withstand the stress of doing a vertical climb more than if it lacks the thrust to do so. A C-17 is not designed with doing the high G turns that a fighter is and a vertical climb, even without accelerating, would cause very different stresses than horizontal flight would.
If this plane is stalling it's fuel injectors on both sides need to be washed out and sprayed out and clean out you got that right the lines need a checkup 🛑🚨💺🌍⛑️🌎🤝🎯💯🛫🇺🇸💌🌏👍🌹🌹❣️❣️
Just watching the most beautiful airplane in the history of aviation makes me forgive the click bating tactics of the poster. The BAe 146 is a very close 2nd as far as beauty.
I live near Nellis AFB, and I would pay to watch them. It's like a Symphony. We see them practice all the time. The Flight Team is comprised of some of the very best Pilots in the world. As a Lojwa Animal, I am proud to call them Brother's. They serve a great purpose. Every one of them I have met were pretty nice guys. After watching them almost daily for 2t years, they still amaze and impress me. Stay safe, Sirs!
@@georgehays4900 ABC.au Foreign Correspondant The Dome on RUclips will Explain what a Lojwa Animal is. As far as the 2t goes, this was a while back. I have no idea what I was trying to convey at that time. It was probably a typo. I am old and these numbers andl etters are getting smaller and harder to see.
Thanks for reminding me of my very heavy father back in the day springing out of his chair and easily catching me no matter how much of a head start I had and beating the crap out of me. I mean, I wasn't a star athlete, but homeboy was damn fast for being over 300 pounds.
I realize this is what the Air Force uses as their main cargo ship now, but there was nothing like seeing a big ol c-5a Galaxy taking off and flying over. Simply nothing like it..
My highschool was about 4 miles as the wind blows from a national guard base where there are still many C5s. We used to watch them fly over the school regularly, and it never ceases to amaze me.
@@bearsharkp3901 I still see them every time I visit mom. She lives near the Newburgh NY ANG base / Stewart Airport. I had a friend who flew the C-17. It's a pretty plane, but I agree the C-5 is the better bird.
It’s not thrust it’s lift that makes these fly, lift comes from differential air pressure so I get the point you are trying to make but sorry I don’t see a barn door flying.
I remember during the first Iraq war. These cargo planes were flying loaded up out of Travis AFB. I lived pretty far away and their takeoff pattern took quite a bit of time to get to attitude. The sound of the engines sounded louder when working really hard.
@@ClutchEveryTime not only that the "first Iraq war" started January 16th 1991. C-17s were not around then. This guy is mistaken whoever posted the original comment.🤡
I live in Dover, Del. About five miles from DAFB. When I first got here back in the late 70’s they had the big C-5 aircraft. Seeing them fly right over my neighborhood was a common sight. Sometimes so low you could see the landing gear retract. And they were loud at first but after a while you didn’t even notice it unless they were testing engines. Then it got really loud. Since then I’ve seen all manner of planes fly in and out of DAFB. A lot of transplants complain about the noise but us locals tell them that’s the sound of freedom.
My dad lives out near West Dennys Road and that's about as close as id like to get lol. you still see tons of air traffic but in regards to noise he only has to deal with the NASCAR race weekend.
I live down in the British Channel Islands, and these things, plus the Atlas and Hercules, often use our airport for approach and touch-and-go training, same thing from my perspective, we live under the flight path and it looks like they're flying so slow that they should be falling out of the sky. I listen-in to their comms on my scanner, it's nothing interesting, I'm just nosey, lol 🤜🤛
That robust and powerful diesel heavy duty truck is more than capable of pushing that C-17 behemoth around wherever it needs to do so. (At very slow and deliberate speed, of course.)
The best sleep I've ever had on an aircraft. Flew into Afghanistan in a C-17 that was virtually empty, so they let us throw down our sleeping bags and stretch out. Wonderful airplane.
I love watching these things takeoff from the base in San Antonio. They don't even look like they're flying. It's kind of an errie feeling when first watching them. Very cool tho
I agree it wasnt an insane take off. Things are nice though, i got to stand inside one at an air show once, was like standing in a hollowed out skyscraper laying on its side. Wonder what it feels like actually being in one on a real "insane STOL".
Love all the comments about Germany...I lived there as well for a few years...however, Zurich in not in Germany...There might just as well be comments about Romania or Austria...
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You don't have to be an aviation enthusiast to get a thrill out of watching this massive cargo aircraft take off! WOW, this big bird takes off in the air like she owns it, well, she probably does! Even the sound of the Globemaster slipping the surly bonds of Earth rumbles through you as she slips up into the wild blue. I guess with all that power, the C-17 doesn't have to eat a lot of runway before just lifting up effortlessly, amazing!
I'm sorry to inform you. It is a McDonnell Douglas C17 Globemaster III. We designed it we built it. Boeing had nothing to do with it.
And than the deity for that with their current record
No its not its a planey mcplane face designed by planey mcplane corporation.
Well Said, Neil Frederick Clifford, C17 Manufacturing Engineering Long Beach 1986-1991
Take of starts at 6:45
True Hero
Thank you
@@SPotter1973 - C-17 6167 comms to tower... Back off boys, the gorilla has to jet!
🌄 If "you own the sky," then tell us who needs to clean up the junk from rocket launches that is floating around in space. How many countries are responsible and what is their share? Would tRump's "space force" clean up for the US?
No new projects, no trips to the moon or Mars should be financed until there's a substantial cleanup of space debris.
I have been on several C 17's at U Tapao Airport in Thailand. Fantastic crews! Very well educated and --very polite! A compliment to the USA!
Thank you. We are very proud of our military. Their protection, service, professionalism, and humanitarianism are very dear to us in the US.
Was one of the McDonnell Douglas FAA Aircraft Dispatchers durung the Flight Test Program for the C-17 out of Long Beach CA. 1st fuselage was put in hanger to break wings off, 2nd for mechanical and the 3rd for electronic testing. Eventually program moved to Edwards AFB. Initial flight test done out over the Pacific in an area south of San Diego, called W291. Then went world wide for cold and hot weather testing. Aircraft did re-lights, hardovers, dives steep turns, hard landings, aborted takeoffs, standing water takeoffs and landings. Multi cargo drops at different altitudes like 50 feet above the runway. Every C-17 that came off the Production line did a 3 - 6 hour systems flight test before delivery to the Air Force.
We built the C17 runway and parking at marine camp Dwyer in south Afghanistan. Very thick runway. Too bad Biden wasted all our Taxpayer funds giving it back to the Taliban. Stupid
I watched a Hercules take off with a hostage rescue pack. Solid Propellent booster Rockets for really really short take off. Pilot lined up on runway gave it full power on all four turbo props and almost as soon as everything was going full power and rolling the pilot hit the JATO button. Four or six cannot remember rockets fired and the plane accelerated and took off, it almost went up vertically. Boosters burned for it seemed about 30 seconds. Pilot nosed down to level flight just before the JATO packs burned out and flew away as if nothing happened. It looked like the Space Shuttle taking off, awesome. Saw it at Oceana Air base in Virginia Beach many years ago.
JATOs are cool. Perhaps you might remember an X plane that was fired off a mobile rail launcher like a missile.
Have you seen the mission they had planned to land a c130 inside a soccer stadium and takeoff back out of it with the use of many JATO’s?
Still don't understand why the are called JATO when the really are RATOs. Rocket Assisted TakeOff instead of Jet Assisted TakeOff.
@@gravelydon7072 t.w.i.s.
@@gravelydon7072 Whatever it is...Thank you GOD for it !!!!
These incredible aircraft fly low and slow over my house on training missions all the time. It's like watching a huge barn floating by. Awesome!!!
"Huge barn floating by" cracked me up. They are amazing aircraft.
They fly low over my house, too. Close enough I can see the rivets and the pilots....although, it’s been quiet here with no activity in about three weeks.
I used to watch them come in for a landing at El Toro afb out my window as a kid was amazing watching such a huge plane flying so slow
Always been in awe of how slow they look like their going!
Thank you for your daily tolerance.
I grew up hearing these and other planes take off near Travis AFB. I love them. To see something so massive as a C-17 or C-5 take off, while using such a small percentage of the runway, is incredible. And the sound they make is fantastic. Seriously I enjoy watching these take off and land as much as fighter jets.
Edit: I can tell by the comments that I may have been to vague and the meaning is misunderstood. Hopefully this clarifies it.
short runway? That's runway 16 in Zürich which is 3700 meters long, longer than the longest at Travis AFB (3350 meters) and long enough for basically every plane to start and land.
@@FalconX88 ...........Dude did it even use 1/3rd of the runway?
@@FalconX88 Did it use any significant length of that runway?
I know Travis AFB in Fairfield, CA I grew up about 20 minutes from there
They are not massive at all. Way smaller than a 747 or a C5.
to be honest, that was a normal take off for a C-17. I see them everyday, that was not a full military power takeoff where they stand it on its tail and just climb
I see them everyday in Charleston SC, too. I love them and the C-5s.
@@schrap72 The C-5 is big, but the C-17 moves like a fighter. Never seen a C-5 do a 360 turn at 90 degrees. Love all those big birds. I even look up when a C-130 flies by, lol
@@neilhagerman1217 Nothing like low levels on an incentive flight :)
You bet been there awesome awesome stuff never happened I was told yes sir was my reply.
@@neilhagerman1217 C-130, you can hear it coming before it get there. C-130 does aerial spraying for mosquitoes when it gets bad down here. Reserve unit out of Ohio. Under 500ft AGL.
SHE IS GORGEOUS !! I HAD ONE FLY OVER OUR HOUSE ALONG WITH 2 C-5 GALAXIES BEFORE. NEVER WILL FORGET THOSE 2 EVENTS...EVER. GOOSEBUMPS, CHILLS, TEARS BECAUSE I AM THE MILITARY 'S. NUMBER 1 FAN 💜💜💜
It's still amazing to me that these things fly. Mind blowing.
Lmao, even riding in them they feel like they shouldn’t be flying 😂 or jumping out of one
Why? Because they dont flap their wings?
@@blubba4brainsfatnproud272 you dumb or just an ass? cuz of the size and shape
That’s what i said the first time I saw it….but then I saw a C-5 and it takes the cake.
@@xelthiavice4276 your shape and size?!? Then I would think it would have a hard time getting up let alone fly. Rofl
I went to an airshow at homstead air base once.. they had the thunderbirds, F15s, F16s, F18s etc etc.. all kinds of incredibly cool planes putting on shows and the most impressive thing was seeing the C17 do a short take-off and landing.. that thing stops on a dime and takes off like the space shuttle Lol..
My husband and I were stationed at Homestead AFB back in 1990 and the air show I went in 1991 had the thunderbirds. The cool thing about Homestead it was a base that had fighter jets and on any given day they would fly over our house. It was so cool to watch!
I can relate to your statement I remember fort Lauderdale Air show especially seeing the stealth bomber it was like out of this world definitely was in aww
Nevermind the see that see this stuff. I caught hops on the C17 many times also on the C5. Great!!!
~1/3 runway run to take-off. Impressive.
THANK YOU, for the video. My brother is a retired C-17 Pilot.
Very imprsive performance by these sophisticated airborne machines with robust earodynamics.
Kudos to desingners and pilots.
The C-17 is a Vicious Warrior Aircraft. Great takeoff. And more so..I liked how the pilot banked into the clouds at the end of the video.
It looked like the end of a movie. 👍🏽
I live just outside CFB Trenton , I see these things many time a week . They still impress me
i dedicate this to my dad and my brother rob, they loved this sort of thing
Back in 1991, I went to an air show at Reese AFB - Lubbock. I saw the Blue Angels (F-18), one of the first public displays of a U2, B-1, and even a F-119 flyover. The most entertaining part of the show was the JATO take-off of a C-130.
It’s unbelievable how quickly these big birds can get airborne.
Yep. I grew up in Long Beach, CA (where they were made, (K) LGB airport) watching these take off all the time over my house! My dad worked supporting this program at McDonnell Douglas (and later Boeing of course) but they were something special when they took off. Later when I worked at the airport I'd see them doing pre-delivery tests like high speed taxis on the active runway and some wild high-performance takeoffs, often with a winged "wave" good-bye upon departing... I remember the last one leaving the plant. A sad day for sure for many of the die-hard Douglas-era people and everyone else alike... It's always a pleasure when they visit and come back home, usually for a local airshow or just a fuel up here. One of the few things I used to enjoy about living here...
I appreciate the way you creatively edit so we only see it once it's already been rolling and we don't know how long it's actually been doing it. It's not like you were short on footage or time because you made us watch while every single engine started up but just before it actually did the takeoff you cut a bit away so we can't tell how long it's been rolling.
Because the plane literally only used 1/3 of the runway, there wasn't any "Rolling" time to be had.
That was kind of clickbait. Love that sound!!
Seems some people have no idea how huge this C17 is and so very little runway it took for it to rotate. And if this doesn't impress you, you should see the C5 fly. It actually looks like it is stopped in the air it is so huge.
Exactly what I was thinking. Two amazing aircraft. I still look for MAC on the tail instead of AMC, though. And yeah I'm old lol
I live near Dover A.F.B. in Delaware and used to love hearing the C-5s coming in screaming.
@@jamesplymire5342 I want to get back to Dover one day. I'm told one of the B-17s my dad flew in is restored and outside the front gate. Her name is "Sleepy Time Gal."
I grew up in Altus Oklahoma and I got to walk thru that monster a few times when they had the air show every year... Altus was the home of the C-5A
The C17 is not huge.
That plane turns so effortlessly despite its size.
Fantastic video! Congratulations!
I've never heard another plane sound quite the same. I've only heard it in person once, almost 20 years ago, but it was memorable.
I live close to Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina and the C-17s are a staple here. You don’t even have to look up to know one is going over since they are so incredibly loud.
I live near Dover AFB, and see (and hear!) C-5s and C-17s fairly often. They have similar sounds - extremely impressive!
Landscape mode and a steady hand. Hats off to you, sir!
I lived in Germany for 2 years. I loved those dreary days like what is shown here. Gawd I miss that place!! The weather, the people, the night life, the small villages, amazing place!
My mother was a full blooded German, of German parents, born in America, but I have always been impressed by the things Germans build! First quality, and usually the best design over all others! Best tanks, aircraft, automobiles, whatever! I am proud of my German heritage, other than the destruction caused by that NAZI bastard HITLER!🤬🤬
I lived there for 7 years. Two tours of 4 and 3 years when my father was in the US Army. Back in the 70’s and early 80’s. I loved those dreary days too! One out of three days was like this. I liked the sunny days also. Just had the best time as a kid living on a US Army post housing area. Loved Germany. The best of times.
Mom is from Ochsenfürt and würzburg. Dads grandparents from isernia and castelvecchio subequo/Abruzzi region. Love the people food, towns, rivers, and culture of Europe.
We could always tell we were coming up on an American convoy on the Autobahn by the smoke cloud! Lol.
@@bobpaulino4714 I'm sure this sounds silly ( meaning I can google anything for instant answers) but is the Autobahn like I hear , speed is not limited so any speed you want to drive is good ? Thanks just curious
@@rockybarnes307 there are areas with speed restrictions. Many areas have no limit -- just little white crosses on the side of the highway to show you where someone who thought that they were a competent driver took their last breath.
I was a crew chief on C141s and missed seeing working on these by a few years 😩
Most likely its just another day at the office for the pilots and crew, but for me you have to be a genius to learn and fly that aircraft. JUST AMAZING to watch that big bird taxi and takeoff.
Not harder to fly this than a commercial jet. A fighter though, then we are talking difficulty with all their manouvers!
No harder than driving a car. Well no harder than a manual at lol, Americans might have an issue as it’s not an automatic lol.
Good point.
This is no ordinary plane. It take a lot of skills to fly this big bird.
I like this pilot takeoff. He cruised that big C-17 on up into the wind. He didn't takeoff steep and bank right away.
He didn't rush...that's why the takeoff look so beautiful.
This look like the end of a movie because right at the end of this video..he bank. Now that's patience.
super cool take off ...almost looks like he is in slow motion always amzing some thing that big can fly
6:54 that's not very far from the taxiway entry point for that runway. That is pretty impressive...
Eight minutes of my life I’ll never get back
That smoke you see at the beginning is probably de-icer. I'm sure that if this was January in Zurich, it was cold enough to gather condensation and the water would freeze in the engines . They use de-icer to safely warm up the engines. As the engine heats up, it burns the de-icer and turns it to smoke.
p.s. The take off looked pretty normal to me.
May not be de-icer, it could just be un-burnt fuel vaporising in the hot gas as the engine fires up. Agree that looked like a normal take off…
Isnt that a beauty, very impressive. Love it !!!
Plane was literally designed to use dirt runways and to be able to land and takeoff in the same distance as a C-130. Best military cargo lifter in the world.
Thats a bit too much of an overstatement because best needs various criterias to be decided upon. For a military cargo, it can be MTOW, STOL, Cargo Volume, altitude adaptability, speed of loading/unloading etc and even after that being able to decide a best in ge world is highly questionable. All militaries use the cargo aircraft that best suits their needs. There isn't any one defined 'best' that can fit in any pair of shoes.
@@fieldmarshal7298 i was air trans in the air force, my job was loading unloading aircraft. So when I say best, I'm speaking from experiance....
It’s an over-achiever in all categories..
@@bubba9384 yes sir, but you have only seen your own air force,ask any other guy from the other airforce that uses a different airlifter and chances are that they would answer differently. Every airforce has its own needs and specifications and i hope you would know that or else the aircraft composition of all airforce a would be more or less similar.
@@fieldmarshal7298 nope... I have loaded most military heavy llifter aircraft at some point, the only one I haven't loaded at least once is the AN-225 that I know of. Yea the C-17 isen't the best for every job, but overall it is the best heavy lifter around. And from what I've seen, heard from pilots, and experianced riding in a handful of heavy lifters it is the best flyer in its weight catagory.
It's like comparing a lambo to a mustang...
USAF saved several thousand gallons of fuel with that push-back.
A C17 does not burn several thousand gallons of fuel in the time it takes to do a reverse thrust.
I grew up at LSZH/ZRH, love this A/P.
Awesome takeoff video
My last two jumps in the Army was from the C17 at Bragg. We were testing mass exit. Great bird to jump from.
Beautiful Take Off
KUDDOS to the Pilots
USAF has the best cargo planes in the world! Amazing aircraft!
What a beauty! Amazing old bird.
I worked at the Long Beach assembly plant. Been inside a C17. Big enough to roll 2 sherman tanks inside. Powerful enough to fly them. Incredible engineering.
Was one of the FAA Flight Dispatchers during the program. Got to jumpseat on some of the flights after all the flight testing was done. Obviously was min crew during testing even at Edwards. One of the greatest aircraft built be MDC. To bad it didn't go Commercial.
Hey Nice catch!
May I use your clip in next Aviation compilation video ?
Linked and credited.
Thank You !
I keep sayin ok, last video, but now I'm here.
Awesome. God Bless America!!
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There is no God. Remind me. America?
The kid in the background, “Adios!” Lmao so cute.
This aircraft and the C 130 and the b 1 are my favorite ! Oh and raptor 22 and the f 16
Skip, skip, skip, ...
Then 'wow', a SPECK of plane taking off.
'Insane!'
Very cool to see it's Dover AFB C-17. I get to watch them fly over my house daily!
I experienced this on P-27. They gave employee incentive flights. So exciting Great memory
All the way through I was thinking how that lumbering beast of a plane was going to get off the ground.
The answer of course was "Easily". Amazing.. Thank you for sharing.
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What a beautiful plane.
She absolutely is
We miss seeing her flying around our airport. She so beautiful 😍
felicidades por mantener las aviación en desarrollo
VERY NICE AIR CRAFT C17 GLOB MASTER
Boeing hit a home-run on this bird. GO AIR FORCE. 👍👍
Well, it was developed and built by McDonnell Douglas who was then acquired by BOEING.
Was a Aircraft Dispatcher at DAC when this was in flight test out of Long Beach CA. Then at Edwards AFB. Like all test flights it went around the world to very cold to very hot places. Doing stalls, engine re-lights hard overs in and area out in the Pacific called W29,1 just south of San Diego. Hard and standing water landings and tail dragging takeoffs and brake tests. 3nd aircraft built was used for electronic testing. The first was put in a hanger to see when the wings brokeoff and the 2nd was used for mechanical testing. Every C-17 off the assembly line went through a Production Flight Test before delivery.
That much Thrust positioned in front and below the wing , naturally Low pressure on top, Chapeau
Thanks for the upload...It looks like a beast! A great replacement for the C141 Which I found out in research...:)
I worked C5's and 141's in the USAF...I have never seen a C17 in person...I'm surprised how closely they resemble the C-5, I almost thought it was mislabeled ..:)...I did some checking and realized why; I got out in 86, So I guess that's why, since they didn't get added till 91... 60th AMS Travis AFB 81-85
I was stationed at Travis in the same time frame. I was a nav in the 75th and did command post duty. Thanks for keeping our big boys flyable.
@@c17nav :)...Travis was a great base! There was a great bar not too far outside the gates... I can't recall the name, They had pool tables and lots of girls...You may know my old Roomy, Dennis Reichel He Became a navigator after being in Electric Shop...I wish I had listened to my old man and became a lifer...That retirement check would be sweet to be coming in every month! :)...Good health and freedom to you and yours!
@@godbluffvdgg Listened to my old man.
Great.
The insane part is watching this for 7 minutes before seeing it take off
Such a beautiful plane.
C-17s fly over my house frequently. So massive and majestic!
A C-17 is designed to carry tons and tons of cargo. When empty it is very light, relatively speaking. With the engines at maximum thrust and unloaded, it can probably fly straight up after taking off.
I was thinking the same thing about its weight. Light airplane on a cool day can be incredibly responsive at rotation speed.
Nope. Light weight is twice the thrust that the engines can produce so straight up could only be done from a level flight for a very short amount of time before it stalled.
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Like the F-16.
The F-16 can travel very fast and accelerate vertically until it reaches its service ceiling where the air is too thin and the engine's thrust decreases to the point of stalling because of insufficient thrust.
With a C-17, it is probably more a matter of if its air frame could withstand the stress of doing a vertical climb more than if it lacks the thrust to do so. A C-17 is not designed with doing the high G turns that a fighter is and a vertical climb, even without accelerating, would cause very different stresses than horizontal flight would.
You can see how it just wants to fall back down every second, clearly defying physics.
Fast forward to 6:50 to watch a completely normal C-17 takeoff.
lol, thx😉
thats what the power of 4 - Boeing 757 Engines will get you
Looks like a very well designed airframe, clean elegant lines for a heavy lifter.
Custom built for lifting all that heroin.
The C-17 is one of the meanest looking cargo aircraft out there
If this plane is stalling it's fuel injectors on both sides need to be washed out and sprayed out and clean out you got that right the lines need a checkup 🛑🚨💺🌍⛑️🌎🤝🎯💯🛫🇺🇸💌🌏👍🌹🌹❣️❣️
America you are still the most powerful and strongest nation in the world GOD BLESS you.
You bet we are! Signed: Deplorable Vietnam vet.
Bullcrap,most muderous, bully, lying greedy is more like it
@@tesmith47 So sorry little boy! USA, USA, USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What was "insane" was me watching the whole damn thing.
No one made you watch!
what does the little girl say at 7:29? Uf Widerluege?
Just watching the most beautiful airplane in the history of aviation makes me forgive the click bating tactics of the poster. The BAe 146 is a very close 2nd as far as beauty.
Sorry, I have to respectfully disagree. The C-141 was a far more graceful airplane than the C-17. A shame that they are all gone.
Disagree with you both, the f1-11 was the best looking plane ever. IMO.
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Nah! F-104!
Watched them fly 5 years straight while locked up at FCI Fort Dix...amazing aircraft right there.
I live near Nellis AFB, and I would pay to watch them. It's like a Symphony. We see them practice all the time. The Flight Team is comprised of some of the very best Pilots in the world. As a Lojwa Animal, I am proud to call them Brother's. They serve a great purpose. Every one of them I have met were pretty nice guys. After watching them almost daily for 2t years, they still amaze and impress me. Stay safe, Sirs!
What the hell is a Lojwa Animal? What the hell is 2t years?
@@georgehays4900 ABC.au Foreign Correspondant The Dome on RUclips will Explain what a Lojwa Animal is. As far as the 2t goes, this was a while back. I have no idea what I was trying to convey at that time. It was probably a typo. I am old and these numbers andl etters are getting smaller and harder to see.
Awsone aircraft. I worked on it with Macdonald Douglas, Honeywell, and Teledyne. Fantastic capabilities.
Fascinating shape this aircraft has with the down swept wings and huge tail plane
Orville and Wilber are absolutely astonished
Thanks for reminding me of my very heavy father back in the day springing out of his chair and easily catching me no matter how much of a head start I had and beating the crap out of me. I mean, I wasn't a star athlete, but homeboy was damn fast for being over 300 pounds.
I realize this is what the Air Force uses as their main cargo ship now, but there was nothing like seeing a big ol c-5a Galaxy taking off and flying over. Simply nothing like it..
My highschool was about 4 miles as the wind blows from a national guard base where there are still many C5s. We used to watch them fly over the school regularly, and it never ceases to amaze me.
They're old but still around. We used C5to deploy to Afghan and Iraq in 16
@@bearsharkp3901 I still see them every time I visit mom. She lives near the Newburgh NY ANG base / Stewart Airport.
I had a friend who flew the C-17. It's a pretty plane, but I agree the C-5 is the better bird.
That plane is massive!
Did 21 years in the Air Force and working on the flight line. I have never seen a C-17 in person before. That should date me...
141s?
Thank you for your service !
Somebody should.
I'm gonna start skipping right to the end of videos like this, 4 minutes of my life I'll never get back
Very impressive: Actually with enough thrust, you can make a barn door fly
That's big enough to be the whole barn!
It’s not thrust it’s lift that makes these fly, lift comes from differential air pressure so I get the point you are trying to make but sorry I don’t see a barn door flying.
Or a pig!
Thought the adage was a brick.
@@maynardferguson9599 I don't know , maybe a pig.
We get those at RAF Northolt. I live under the flightpath and when one comes in, you know about it! The runway is pretty short.
I remember during the first Iraq war. These cargo planes were flying loaded up out of Travis AFB. I lived pretty far away and their takeoff pattern took quite a bit of time to get to attitude. The sound of the engines sounded louder when working really hard.
NATO murderers 🤮
“The sound of the engines sounded louder when working really hard”
- Albert Einstein
@@ClutchEveryTime not only that the "first Iraq war" started January 16th 1991. C-17s were not around then. This guy is mistaken whoever posted the original comment.🤡
@@desertodavid I'm guessing they were C-5's.
@@ClutchEveryTime lol
I grew up in Tacoma near JBLM and now that Left and head this I noticed this sound is very unique
7:16
It’s too bad that city went down hill
It’s sad that Tacoma has gone hill. I’ve been there several times. My last time was in the early 2000s.
I live in Dover, Del. About five miles from DAFB. When I first got here back in the late 70’s they had the big C-5 aircraft. Seeing them fly right over my neighborhood was a common sight. Sometimes so low you could see the landing gear retract. And they were loud at first but after a while you didn’t even notice it unless they were testing engines. Then it got really loud. Since then I’ve seen all manner of planes fly in and out of DAFB. A lot of transplants complain about the noise but us locals tell them that’s the sound of freedom.
My dad lives out near West Dennys Road and that's about as close as id like to get lol. you still see tons of air traffic but in regards to noise he only has to deal with the NASCAR race weekend.
This plane is actually based out of Dover as you can see the 436/512 airlift wing notation on the side at 5:40.
You should go live in a no fly zone and experience what living is supposed to be like .
absolutely love big air ✈️
I used to watch these take off from Eglin. It looked they were going slow enough to fall out of the sky. The weirdest sounding engines also.
I live down in the British Channel Islands, and these things, plus the Atlas and Hercules, often use our airport for approach and touch-and-go training, same thing from my perspective, we live under the flight path and it looks like they're flying so slow that they should be falling out of the sky.
I listen-in to their comms on my scanner, it's nothing interesting, I'm just nosey, lol 🤜🤛
This thing is an absolute Behemoth! I wonder if you could just show this to the Wright brothers how mindblown they would be.
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Someone said that man's greatest invention was the city. This is cool too!
That robust and powerful diesel heavy duty truck is more than capable of pushing that C-17 behemoth around wherever it needs to do so. (At very slow and deliberate speed, of course.)
Incredible plane.🗽🗽🗽👍👍👍
The best sleep I've ever had on an aircraft. Flew into Afghanistan in a C-17 that was virtually empty, so they let us throw down our sleeping bags and stretch out. Wonderful airplane.
Yes I have heard. But I aint crazy enough to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. :) I will leave that to you guys.
jack noyb ....thank you.
Linda Ferguson.. IKR? It aint happening. :)
Jack Thank You for Your Service . Is it noisy inside ?
Same here, flew back from Germany in 1981 on a C5. Like riding on a bigggg overstuffed pillow.
I love watching these things takeoff from the base in San Antonio. They don't even look like they're flying. It's kind of an errie feeling when first watching them. Very cool tho
I agree it wasnt an insane take off. Things are nice though, i got to stand inside one at an air show once, was like standing in a hollowed out skyscraper laying on its side. Wonder what it feels like actually being in one on a real "insane STOL".
Love all the comments about Germany...I lived there as well for a few years...however, Zurich in not in Germany...There might just as well be comments about Romania or Austria...