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Ohh that's an awful photo!!!  :o That's one of the new block 17s that Hickam just got last year. Shows you what can go wrong when a TR (thrust reverser) mafunctions ... !!!  yikes. Sometimes brand new doesn't mean it's perfect!! Yikes.

With the old ways flying the CC-130, if we lose an engine of a vital part at some remote location ... we need to phone home to Trenton.  They then scramble trying to find a spare part and an MRT (Maintenance Repair Team).  Then they have to scramble to find a serviceable aircraft and an...

Quarterly phase sim training will be conducted at various locations throughout the USA, Dover, McGuire, Charleston, McChord etc ... Probably not Altus since their sims are fully booked doing syllabus courses. We cannot buy our own sim right now since the WST, the full motion Weapon Systems...

Yes - well at various locations around the USA.  The aircrew training will remain at the C-17 school house in Altus, Oklahoma.  Since we only have 4 aircraft it is not worth the infrastructure costs to set up our own school house and staff it.  Simply not possible.  So we'll just send out...

This may very well be true.  The ramp/apron will have to be upgraded.  Typically the aircraft is fuelled with about 130,000 lbs or more of fuel on any given day.  With the basic empty weight of the aircraft weighing in at 283,000 lbs .... add the fuel and suddenly you have just over 200 tonnes...

;D  No that was the other guy. Most people who know me, know that I hate the press and the media. I am sick and tired of being quoted out of context.  Each time they call me for an interview I always say that I am unavailable and then I give them Johny's contact info ....  ;D  I lose count on...

In my opinion there is no problem at all in pipeliners coming to the C-17 as a first tour.  I also see no issue with them going to the Airbus nor the Challenger as well for a first tour.  You come onto the aircraft as a copilot and you spend 3 years or more learning the role, the aircraft and...

Yeah, there are currently 2 pilots who were part of the original C-17 exchange program from 2001 - 2004.  We're both now be worked like dogs trying to get this program up and running.  During the exchange there were no actual maintenance folks trained, but there was one MX officer. We had one...

Yes, that was a sad day.  I flew Hercs for 5 great years with 429 Sqn ('96 - '01) and got to see the world ..... nothing would bring a bigger smile to my face than to see 429 Sqn stood up again as the C-17 squadron.

Cobra: No, we're not going to bother - for a couple of reasons. 1 - We will be getting the ER (Extended Range) aircraft.  These aircraft (post block 12 aircraft mod) have the centre wing boxes modified into 4 internal centre wing fuel tanks which ups the total fuel capacity from 185,000 lbs to...

Sorry for all the posts and responses. I'm just trying to answer all the questions ......

Max: 8 Wing will be hard pressed to be ready for August and October, although the engineers are working really hard to make it happen.  Concrete will be poured as soon as the weather warms up.  In the mean time the aircraft will be parked over by the east end of the ramp near the AMU, round...

Haletown nailed it.  Good response. Unclassified, open source material follows ...... The LAIRCM is really cool .... Large Aircraft Infra Red Counter Measures.  But you were close with the L - it is infact a laser.  The "Nemesis" LAIRCM system as produced by Northrup Grumman, comes with a...

The unit will be stood up eventually as a separate Squadron although nobody knows which one yet.  Right now, as an interim measure, the C-17 unit will be part of a "flight" of 437 Sqn in Trenton.  The creation of the crews to bring the C-17 on-line has been dictated to us as a PY-neutral project...

Yes it can. The C-17 (and the C-130s) can both drop the MOAB (GBU-43) and also the Daisy Cutter (BLU-82).  The Daisy Cutter is smaller than the MOAB and weighs in at only about 15,000 lbs of high explosive. They are both rigged to HE xetraction platforms and are dropped using the HE airdrop...

The CAS and DAR have decided that it will be called: CC-177 Globemaster lll [No French equivalent has been provided] Tail numbers will be:  701, 702, 703 and 704 I have been asked to staff this several times. The C-17 CAN operate onto the 5000' x 150' packed gravel and snow runway.  It CAN...

Not sure if Flight Safety offers them or not. 437 uses a sim down in Florida becasue there are few A310 sims around apparently.  Also the OTU conversion course is offered "in house" by a small OTF staff in Trenton at 437 Sqn.

In short ........ YES. It will take us a while, both for the aircrew and also for the infrastructure, to adjust to the airdrop role.  Right now the Division is not looking at beginning airdrop until late in 2008 or early 2009 [at the very ealriest] and that is only if things are going well with...

Anything is possible these days - there is mobility between fleets and communities these days. Expect pipeliners to come to the C-17 in late 2008.  The Airbus needs to set up a different OTU/conversion program before pipeliners can be trained directly on the "Bus".  Right now the OTU is a very...

Yes "P" is the production number. Yup - correct.  Our first aircraft was supposed to be delivered in Mar/Apr 2007, but after negotiations last summer we slipped them back to June 2007.  There is a delay for the LAIRCM fitting from Northrup Grumman.  Our first tail was for P-174 in June 2007. ...