C-17 Globemaster Pregame Flyover

[Enki_Amenra]

Here is the C-17 Globemaster aircraft from the Tennessee Air National Guard's 164th Airlift Wing in Memphis, heading to Neyland Stadium for the flyover at the Tennessee v UTSA game today (this video was taken about 8 miles from the stadium, just minutes before kick-off):

 

[Boca Vol]

Nice!

A few years ago when the Super Bowl was in Tampa the Stealth Bomber flew over my house and banked left towards Tampa. I ran inside and watched it fly over the stadium on TV.

 

[stolitonic]

Nice!

A few years ago when the Super Bowl was in Tampa the Stealth Bomber flew over my house and banked left towards Tampa. I ran inside and watched it fly over the stadium on TV.

If ya saw it, must not have been very stealth-y.. I will escort myself out now. Please be sure to tip your waitreses

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Nice!

A few years ago when the Super Bowl was in Tampa the Stealth Bomber flew over my house and banked left towards Tampa. I ran inside and watched it fly over the stadium on TV.

They're so cool to see flying low. It's hard to believe they can fly so slow and not fall out of the sky.

 

[kunsanvol]

GIANT waste of taxpayer money.

 

[IndianaVol]

GIANT waste of taxpayer money.

Actually most times these are done.as training exercises, which the air wing would be doing anyways to maintain readiness. They like doing them because it gives the a different "target" or location scenario.

 

[kunsanvol]

Actually most times these are done.as training exercises, which the air wing would be doing anyways to maintain readiness. They like doing them because it gives the a different "target" or location scenario.

Not the umpteen I was a part of...massive FWA

 

[hardin_co85]

GIANT waste of taxpayer money.

That you troy aikman ? Or joe buck

 

[kunsanvol]

That you troy aikman ? Or joe buck

a guy who knows the cost involved

 

[OneManGang]

GIANT waste of taxpayer money.

 

[hardin_co85]

a guy who knows the cost involved

I mean we pay taxes for everything.. and a hell of alot goes overseas.. why not let US the taxpayers see what we pay for.. plus its cool. My grandpa served 30 years in air force and i love a good flyover.

 

[BreatheUT]

Here is the C-17 Globemaster aircraft from the Tennessee Air National Guard's 164th Airlift Wing in Memphis, heading to Neyland Stadium for the flyover at the Tennessee v UTSA game today (this video was taken about 8 miles from the stadium, just minutes before kick-off):

I don't recall ever seeing a C-17 flyover. It was large and a little slow.

 

[maryvillenative]

GIANT waste of taxpayer money.

I'm guessing you are too

 

[PineyBluff Vol]

I don't recall ever seeing a C-17 flyover. It was large and a little slow.

Flew on one of those from Knoxville to Wright Patterson.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Actually most times these are done.as training exercises, which the air wing would be doing anyways to maintain readiness. They like doing them because it gives the a different "target" or location scenario.

Right. It was, at least, a 2 day training exercise. Maybe 3 or 4 days or more.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

I don't recall ever seeing a C-17 flyover. It was large and a little slow.

It was huge in the sky. The video doesn't do it justice. I looked up some of the planes like it least night and learned it was not close to the largest we have. I don't know if the C-5 is the biggest, but it makes the C-17 look. . . not big. I would've really been shocked if I saw a C-5 that close and that low & slow flying over. Crazy those things don't just fall from the sky when they got so slow.

 

[PalmettoStateVol]

Not the umpteen I was a part of...massive FWA

This post has the "Hey, look at me everybody! I was part of a flight crew in the military so I'm gonna' make a ridiculous comment on a message board so I get attention" vibe to it. Every aviation unit in the National Guard and Reserves have AFTP's (Additional Flight Training Periods). At least that's what they were called on the Army side. It may be called something different in the Air Force, but it's essentially the same. You get paid extra money to come in and fly to maintain your readiness. It doesn't matter that it was for a fly over at a UT game. The point is, the maintainers had to come in and make sure the maintenance was completed on the aircraft. The flight crew had to come in and ensure their flight equipment was good to go, make a flight plan, file that flight plan, brief the mission, preflight the airframe, and then go execute that mission on time and on target. It just so happened that the time and target was Neyland Stadium at the conclusion of The National Anthem to showcase the awesomeness of our brothers and sisters in uniform. But hey, you do you fella.

 

[OneManGang]

I don't recall ever seeing a C-17 flyover. It was large and a little slow.

It IS classified as a heavy lift aircraft. In a pinch it can can haul an M-1 main battle tank. It is designed to operate from remote landing strips (but usually doesn't) and its thrust reversers can actually move it backwards!

The C-17 came about because the Air Force wanted an a heavy lifter to supplement the C-5 without re-opening the C-5 production line. The C-5 is a 1960s design and the newest one is over 30 years old. It has been upgraded to the C-5M standard but is still an old design.

The USAF has approximately three times as many C-17s as C-5s.

The -17 we saw Saturday came by at pretty much the same speed it would use when dropping paratroopers (one of its missions).

It cruises at 520 knots which puts it up there with most commercial airliners.

 

[The Ron Mexico]

GIANT waste of taxpayer money.

Training flying hours and salary that was already allocated for FY23 was (and always is) used. No additional funds are allocated for the flyovers at Neyland. So the money spent doing this was used to plan and fly a time over target training objective that would have been used for similar training somewhere else.

 

[dobre_shunka]

GIANT waste of taxpayer money.

That is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a penny compared to the rest of the money the federal government wastes.

Not even in the ballpark of a "GIANT waste"

 

[BooBooP]

This guy

GIANT waste of taxpayer money.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

They're so cool to see flying low. It's hard to believe they can fly so slow and not fall out of the sky.

Trust me. They are not flying 'slow'. They are probably moving at 200-250 knots.

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

That is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a penny compared to the rest of the money the federal government wastes.

Not even in the ballpark of a "GIANT waste"

And there was probably some training going on as well.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

Trust me. They are not flying 'slow'. They are probably moving at 200-250 knots.

That seems pretty slow, given their scale. I suppose they don't top out much faster, maybe 500-700mph? 200ish mph seems like crawling to me. Seems crazy a plane of that size can stay in the air moving that slow. . . I'm not Josh Dobbs, so it's probably just my ignorance that makes it seems wild.

 

[stolitonic]

That seems pretty slow, given their scale. I suppose they don't top out much faster, maybe 500-700mph? 200ish mph seems like crawling to me. Seems crazy a plane of that size can stay in the air moving that slow. . . I'm not Josh Dobbs, so it's probably just my ignorance that makes it seems wild.

700 mph? I would really like to see a cargo plane flying at close to the speed of sound lol. I'm far too lazy to do the calculation, but at that height (and therefore temp), 730 mph seems like a good estimate.