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To: Mac1
Re my comment about "graceful", this is what a "formation" of globemasters looks like.:

The Globemaster has such heavy wake turbulence that anything flying behind it would be shaken apart, so when they fly multiple planes, they have to be scattered across the sky to keep them from being damaged.

22 posted on 12/04/2006 6:25:18 AM PST by Little Pig (Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
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To: Little Pig
Sure is a lot better looking than it's namesake predessor:


23 posted on 12/04/2006 6:35:28 AM PST by NCC-1701 (To boldly go where no FReeper has gone before. Live long and prosper.)
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To: Little Pig

"The Globemaster has such heavy wake turbulence that anything flying behind it would be shaken apart, so when they fly multiple planes, they have to be scattered across the sky to keep them from being damaged"

So how did that work out with the C5 which is bigger?


26 posted on 12/04/2006 7:36:13 AM PST by Mac1
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