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Saintsman
9th Dec 2007, 19:32
Just looked on Google Earth. 6 Tristars and 3 C-17s sat on the pan.
Must be a weekend ;)
D-IFF_ident
9th Dec 2007, 19:45
Oh good, another intelligent and well reasoned piece on how busy the AT fleet isn't. I know I shouldn't rise to it, but since he asked - he could look here: http://earth.google.com/faq.html for the explanation. Google Earth images are generally between 1 and 3 years old. Yawn. :rolleyes:
Magnersdrinker
9th Dec 2007, 23:23
PMSL brilliant :)
spanners123
9th Dec 2007, 23:35
I can see 2 C-17's!!:ok:
Fugazi1000
10th Dec 2007, 20:12
I'm intrigued.
What is the '3rd' C17 in the image? T-tail, 4 wing mounted engines and what look like RAF roundels on the wing... :confused:
srobarts
10th Dec 2007, 20:16
The top of the fin on the third one has a proboscis on it - ergo not a C-17. Is it an IL-76?
spanners123
10th Dec 2007, 20:18
Only 2 C-17's, the other is smaller, wrong colour , the engines are too close together and the centre of the t-tail has a cone on the leading edge! maybe an Antonov, not sure though.
Razor61
10th Dec 2007, 21:44
It is indeed an IL-76.
14greens
10th Dec 2007, 22:37
landed back at brize on sunday and the waterfront was empty apart from 2 DC10's 1 Tromotor on a back pan so, shatters that theory then dont it? Oh yeah and there are only 2 in the shed before anybody says anything, so pretty busy weekend at brize