C-17 short field landing
 

At Peter O. Knight, Tampa, a 3,500' runway.

But what was it all about? Taxying must have been fun too.

Some interesting data on C-17 takeoff and landing distances here:

http://gao.justia.com/department-of-...ull-report.pdf

Clearly the commentator on the video hasn't read it. :O

There's more info here :- http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...ot-runway.html

It must have been a heavy landing judging by the way the ground was bouncing the cameraman about! :)

It does seem quite amazing that they should mistake such an obviously narrow and short runway for a long and wide one. However, in their defence, I don´t believe that the a/c was based there (it´s more of an C-135/KC-135 base) and at the time of day they made the approach they would have had the Sun in their eyes. Lucky there wasn´t any light a/c on or near the runway.