I've just had a look at the images available: that's a huge aircraft!
Chris
On 11 Mar 2009, at 22:03, Paul Laughlin wrote:
> You think that's loud. You should have been on one when they pulled
> out on
> the end of the runway, locked the brakes and set power for takeoff.
> And
> then they kicked the brakes loose and it was 0 to 160 in something
> like 8
> seconds. Could really get that monster moving in a hurry. A standard
> mission on that thing was 24 hours, and then the aircraft commander
> would
> decide that the copilot need a couple of hours of touch and go
> landings. I
> flew on them as an inflight bombing navigation system maintenance
> technician. Non crewmember status. My takeoff position was
> strapped into a
> bunk in the rear of the aircraft.
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