The 4 engine or the 6 engine Antonov?
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From: Charles Geilfuss
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 10:54 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Large flying machine
All four of those planes have been stationed here at Charleston AFB over
the years. I have learned to identify them by the sound of their engines.
The C-5 has a very characteristic sound that always reminds me of the
twister in The Wizard of Oz. Years ago, while working in my garage I heard
a big plane fly over that I had never heard before. I ran outside, and sure
enough it was a new one: a Russian Antonov transport. Never thought I would
ever see one of those. Impressive and really big.
Charlie
On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 8:54 AM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The C-17 was a good addition to the airlift inventory as it filled
the gap between the C-130 and the C-141B. I nice theatre transport that
seems to have a good record.
Consider yourself lucky that you don't have any C-5s.
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>I attended a conference on aviation medicine this week, held at Ramstein
AB – a large transport hub in the Rheinland Pfalz region of Germany.
>
>I presented on training for spatial disorientation recognition and
avoidance in pilots, but hung around for quite a bit of the medical stuff.
It was more interesting than I had anticipated, although I needed to check
my dictionary quite frequently: who would have known, for instance, that
“pre-morbidic” meant “not yet diseased”? I think that military doctors
make some of it up . . .
>
>Anyway, one of the highlights was a visit to a transport isolation system
installed on a C17; this was designed after the Ebola outbreak when there
were fears that some Americans might need evacuation after contact with
such a serious disease. The aircraft apron was almost deserted (by USAF
standards) but there were more aircraft on that apron than the UK has in
total – we don’t have any C5s . . .
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>There are 4 photos:
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>http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19796 <
http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19796>
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>Chris
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