Busy Brize?

[Saintsman]

Just looked on Google Earth. 6 Tristars and 3 C-17s sat on the pan.

Must be a weekend

[D-IFF_ident]

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.

[Magnersdrinker]

PMSL brilliant

[spanners123]

I can see 2 C-17's!!

[Fugazi1000]

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...

[srobarts]

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]

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]

It is indeed an IL-76.

[14greens]

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