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Subject: Re: [OM] Large flying machine
From: Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 11:54:55 -0400
All four of those planes have been stationed here at Charleston AFB over
the years. I have learned to identify them by the sound of their engines.
The C-5 has a very characteristic sound that always reminds me of the
twister in The Wizard of Oz. Years ago, while working in my garage I heard
a big plane fly over that I had never heard before. I ran outside, and sure
enough it was a new one: a Russian Antonov transport. Never thought I would
ever see one of those. Impressive and really big.

Charlie

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>      The C-17 was a good addition to the airlift inventory as it filled
> the gap between the C-130 and the C-141B.  I nice theatre transport that
> seems to have a good record.
>
>      Consider yourself lucky that you don't have any C-5s.
>
> >
> >I attended a conference on aviation medicine this week, held at Ramstein
> AB – a large transport hub in the Rheinland Pfalz region of Germany.
> >
> >I presented on training for spatial disorientation recognition and
> avoidance in pilots, but hung around for quite a bit of the medical stuff.
> It was more interesting than I had anticipated, although I needed to check
> my dictionary quite frequently: who would have known, for instance, that
> “pre-morbidic” meant “not yet diseased”?  I think that military doctors
> make some of it up . . .
> >
> >Anyway, one of the highlights was a visit to a transport isolation system
> installed on a C17; this was designed after the Ebola outbreak when there
> were fears that some Americans might need evacuation after contact with
> such a serious disease.  The aircraft apron was almost deserted (by USAF
> standards) but there were more aircraft on that apron than the UK has in
> total – we don’t have any C5s . . .
> >
> >There are 4 photos:
> >
> >http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19796 <
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19796>
> >
> >Chris
> >
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> Chris
>
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