Avalon Airshow Photos (Merged)

[Carambar]

Awesome photos dude C17 looks pretty impressive...!

Still not sure how those things get airborne.

[sms777]

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"Still not sure how those things get airborne."

100 000 lbs of thrust times 4 will get anything airborne.
If Howard Hughes had the chance to strap a few of those engines on the Spruce Goose it would have been a regular sight in Sydney Harbour

[Carambar]

100 000 lbs of thrust times 4 will get anything airborne

More like 40,000 lbs times four! That defies physics

[sms777]

Sorry mate, you are correct. 40,440 lbs each to be exact. I was thinking of something else.
Still would have satisfied Mr. Hughes though.