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The FReeper Foxhole Profiles The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III - April 16th, 2004
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Posted on 04/16/2004 12:02:21 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
Lord,
Keep our Troops forever in Your care
Give them victory over the enemy...
Grant them a safe and swift return...
Bless those who mourn the lost. .
FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time.
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The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III:
The New Global Airlift Standard
The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is designed to fulfill military airlift needs well into the 21st century. A high-wing, four-engine, T-tailed aircraft with a rear-loading ramp, the C-17 can carry large combat equipment and troops or humanitarian aid across international distances directly to small austere airfields anywhere in the world.
In August 2002, the U.S. Air Force extended its total C-17 order to 180, by committing to an additional 60 C-17s. This order means Boeing will design, build and deliver C-17s through at least 2008. By Mid-January 2004, 117 C-17s had been delivered, 112 to the U.S. Air Force, one to the Mississippi Air National Guard and four to the United Kingdom Royal Air Force.
The U.S. Air Force declared the first C-17 squadron operational in January 1995. Since then the fleet has amassed nearly 600,000 flying hours. The C-17 has been involved in numerous contingency operations, including flying troops and equipment to Operation Joint Endeavor to support peacekeeping in Bosnia, Allied Force Operation in Kosovo, Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
In Afghanistan, C-17s have flown more than 230 humanitarian missions, airdropping more than 2.4 million ration packages to refugees as well as landing bulk foods and blankets. In addition, C-17s continue to fly daily missions carrying troops, supplies and heavy equipment into austere fields in Afghanistan and into airfields in neighboring countries.
In 1998, eight C-17s completed the longest paratrooper airdrop mission in history, flying more than 8,000 nautical miles from the United States to Central Asia, dropping troops and equipment after more than 19 hours in the air, a feat repeated in 2000.
A cockpit crew of two and one loadmaster operates the C-17, which can be refueled in flight. This cost-effective flight crew complement is made possible through the use of an advanced digital avionics system and advanced cargo systems.
In the cargo compartment the C-17 can carry Army wheeled vehicles in two side-by-side rows. Three Bradley infantry-fighting vehicles comprise one deployment load. Similarly, the Army's newest main battle tank, the M-1, can be carried.
The four engines are Pratt & Whitney PW2040 series turbofans, designated as F117-PW-100 by the Air Force, each producing 40,440 pounds of thrust. The engines are equipped with directed-flow thrust reversers capable of deployment in flight. On the ground, a fully loaded aircraft, using engine reversers, can back up a two-percent slope.
With a payload of 160,000 pounds, the C-17 can take off from a 7,600-foot airfield, fly 2,400 nautical miles, and land on a small, austere airfield in 3,000 feet or less. The C-17 is equipped with an externally blown flap system that allows a steep, low-speed final approach and low-landing speeds for routine short-field landings.
C-17s have set 33 world records more than any other airlifter in history including payload to altitude, time-to-climb, and short-takeoff-and-landing marks in which the C-17 took off in less than 1,400 feet, carried a payload of 44,000 pounds to altitude, and landed in less than 1,400 feet. These records were set during flight-testing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., in 2001.
In 1995, the C-17 received the prestigious Collier Trophy, symbolizing the top aeronautical achievement of 1994. In 1999, President Bill Clinton presented the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award to Boeing Airlift and Tanker Programs, maker of the C-17, for business excellence. In 2002, the C-17s assembly facility in Long Beach, Calif., was recognized by Industry Weeks Best Plants award, for being one of the top 10 in the North America. In December 2002, the C-17 Program and its Aerospace Support unit won the U.S. Senates Productivity Award for Performance Excellence. And, in April 2003, the C-17 Program won the first ever Best of the Best California Governors Award for Performance Excellence.
C-17s are based at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C.; McChord Air Force Base, Wash.; and Altus Air Force Base, Okla., where initial aircrew training occurs. The Air National Guard Base at Jackson, Miss., received its first of eight C-17s on Dec. 18, 2003. Between now and 2007, other new C-17 units will be established at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., and March Air Reserve Base,Calif. Additional domestic basing locations will be announced by the Air Force in the near future.
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To: archy
But maybe one of these days we'll see an AC-17 version....Whoooo! A C-17 gunship...Now that would be cool!
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:31:17 PM PDT
by
snippy_about_it
(Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
To: The Mayor
But I'm looking at flowers and bushes in bloom and trees with leaves. Neener! Neener. :-)
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:37:06 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Puns are bad, but poetry is verse.)
To: PhilDragoo
Evening Phil Dragoo.
I don't know where to begin, you had so many good comments today.
Have to say my tweo favorite were:
During an Air Force driver training program, a C-5 student waits for a break in traffic on the I-5.
"Rather pedestrian after the Foxhole."--Percy Dovetonsils, Armor-Piercing Culture Almanac.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:40:37 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Puns are bad, but poetry is verse.)
To: snippy_about_it
Neener neener. :-)
Ice from lake erie has been flowing down the river for a week.
This is nuthing compared to what I have seen.
This is the s Grand Island bridge.
They have been working on this for 5 years.
State contract..all they are doing is painting it.
on river
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:40:51 PM PDT
by
The Mayor
(Submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.)
To: snippy_about_it
But maybe one of these days we'll see an AC-17 version.... Whoooo! A C-17 gunship...Now that would be cool!
I can beat that. Suppose they configure it specificly for the MOAB delivery mission, which a couple of bluesuit little birdies tell me the C17 has successfully test-flown the flight profiles for, so we're not limited to *just* C130 delivery of our big noisemakers.
If some USAF PAO was real sharp, and AF HQ went along with it, what would the designation of that aircraft so tasked be? I suspect it'd bring a tear to the eyes of a lot of old former WWII aviators. And others; me too.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:41:18 PM PDT
by
archy
(The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
To: Samwise
I am the mother of a Jr. High cheerleader.How much worse can it be than being the mother of a Junior High Daughter?
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:41:28 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Puns are bad, but poetry is verse.)
To: SAMWolf
Neener neener. :-)
to you too!
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:43:17 PM PDT
by
The Mayor
(Submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.)
To: Professional Engineer
COOL!
After all, how many times do you get to talk to a real live Rocket Scientist! WAY COOL!
Sometimes I get to talk to one a couple of times a week. ;-) Radio Astronomer and I talk on the phone every once in a while.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:43:47 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Puns are bad, but poetry is verse.)
To: archy
But maybe one of these days we'll see an AC-17 version....You think a jet engined plane could fly slow enough to serve as an AC? It's sure be able to carry some firepowere though!
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:46:07 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Puns are bad, but poetry is verse.)
To: The Mayor
They have been working on this for 5 years.I knew before I read the next words that they'd be "State contract" LOL! It was hard to get used to the rivers not freezing up here in winter.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:47:41 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Puns are bad, but poetry is verse.)
To: archy
Wonder how many MOABs a C-17 can carry? Carpet bombing with MOABs. :-)
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:49:15 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Puns are bad, but poetry is verse.)
To: SAMWolf
RA and I trade FReepmail fairly regularly. I hadn't met him yet in 2000.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:49:39 PM PDT
by
Professional Engineer
(Descendant of a bunch of dead white guys..........who conquered the world.)
To: The Mayor
LOL! Ice skating out doors is really tough here.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:50:10 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Puns are bad, but poetry is verse.)
To: Professional Engineer; RadioAstronomer
I haven't met him in person either, yet :-). He's a great guy and the first Rocket Scientist I ever met. I sort of figured you two would have met on FR.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:51:55 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Puns are bad, but poetry is verse.)
To: Professional Engineer
After all, how many times do you get to talk to a real live Rocket Scientist! WAY COOL!
Yupper, WAY COOL. Nice story PE thanks for sharing.
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:55:31 PM PDT
by
Soaring Feather
(~The Dragon Flies' Lair~ Poetry and Prose~)
To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it
I dunno. I think I want her to stay in 6th grade. Good grief, she'll be a teenager next year. :^(
Her best friend is sleeping over. She promised to smack her upside the head if she got snooty. :^)
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:56:17 PM PDT
by
Samwise
(The day may come when the courage of men fails...but it is not this day....This day we fight!)
To: Samwise
She promised to smack her upside the head if she got snootyHey, we've all got to have our snooty phase. I went from snooty to humble to snippy. :-)
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posted on
04/16/2004 7:57:39 PM PDT
by
snippy_about_it
(Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
To: The Mayor
Neener neener. LOL.
Oh my, now Sam and I are thinking alike!
I certainly don't miss the miserable weather. I'm always seeing mountains and very, very tall evergreens. We are in a valley here and you can see Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helen and some others all around us. Pretty neat to see the snow waaaaaaay up there and NONE down here. :-)
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posted on
04/16/2004 8:01:29 PM PDT
by
snippy_about_it
(Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
To: snippy_about_it
I'm the bookish nerd that the cheerleaders made fun of, so I'm having conflicting emotions here. LOL I'm not looking forward to the parent's smeeting.
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posted on
04/16/2004 8:03:56 PM PDT
by
Samwise
(The day may come when the courage of men fails...but it is not this day....This day we fight!)
To: snippy_about_it
P.S. I can't imagine you ever being snooty, snippy.
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posted on
04/16/2004 8:05:06 PM PDT
by
Samwise
(The day may come when the courage of men fails...but it is not this day....This day we fight!)
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