Haven’t done a Friday video in a while, so here you go:

Very Close C-17 Take-off from Goobie55 on Vimeo.

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A C-17 taking off from a remote location in Afghanistan. He’ll level off approx. 300 feet AGL (above ground level), accelerate and then pull up hard to anywhere from 30-50 degrees nose high. This is why I love my job!

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ATC: “Would you accept a fighter intercept this morning?”

Us: “Uh…yes, yes we would”

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Taking on 70,000 lbs of gas from a KC-135, 20,000 ft over the Atlantic…definitely a lesson in skilled living:

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C-17 Antarctica

After 13 months of Air Force pilot training, over 200 hours of flight time in the T-6 and T-1, countless 12-hour days, check rides and hundreds of thousands of dollars of jet fuel, I finally found out tonight, at our class’ Assignment Night, the plane I will fly for the Air Force: C-17’s at McChord AFB in Tacoma, WA. I am incredibly excited and grateful as this was one of my top picks on my dream sheet. Overall our class got great drop with nearly everyone getting their top choice of plane.

The C-17 is an awesome plane, the newest of the Air Force’s airlift fleet. It has the most advanced avionics, electronics, capabilities of any of the heavy aircraft. The main feature of the C-17 is its ability to land on small, dirt strips in remote operating areas while carrying up to 170,000 lbs of cargo…oh yeah, and it can stop in approximately 3,000 ft. For more stats and info on the plane check out this page on Wikipedia.

Definitely more to come on my new plane, but just enjoying the moment for now. Thank you to all the taxpayers of America that let me fly around everyday as my job!

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