Big Russian cargo thingy

[insurance_jon]

Just past low over Wakefield heading towards LBA

Any ideas what it's doing round here?

[Eric Mc]

Antonov 124?
Antonov 225?
Antonov 22?
Antonov 12?
Ilyushin 76?

[RicksAlfas]

I'm pretty sure it was a C-17.

[insurance_jon]

Oh. Was bloody big with high tail and high wing

[snotrag]

If this is a C17, then a C17 it is (towards LBA) -

[RicksAlfas]

Yes. That's the feller.

[Eric Mc]

Not Russian then.

[hammo19]

The big Russian cargo thingy (An-124) is right now over the Engliah Channel on FR24

[Eric Mc]

There are quite a few An-124s.

[Scotty2]

And only 1 1/2 225s

Any news on them progressing with the 2nd airframe?

[roverspeed]

Quite a difference between a c17 and a an225! Never realised just as much.

C5 is quite the heavy lifter too.

http://img12.deviantart.net/d70d/i/2012/058/7/4/co...c_225_vs_c_17_globemaster_iii2_by_inpcommander-d4r6kmn.jpg

[Eric Mc]

The C-5 Galaxy was, for many years, the largest plane in the world. It was superseded in some aspects by the An-124 but the one off An 225 surpsses them all.

[yellowjack]

Eric Mc said:

The C-5 Galaxy was, for many years, the largest plane in the world. It was superseded in some aspects by the An-124 but the one off An 225 surpsses them all.

You can get a container lifter into a C-5...



One of these bad boys!

It'll fit into a C-17 as well, though. Designed by Kalmar USA for US Military use, the UK MOD bought a bunch of them for service in Iraq/Afghanistan.








...you do have to pack it up a little first, but it's self contained and a mostly hydraulic operation to do it.

[Eric Mc]

I remember the USAF flew heavy lift crane type vehicles into Dublin Airport in 1978 so they could load up the C-5As that were using to carry all the equipment the Irish Army needed when they were given the job of peace keeping in the Lebanon.

Here's one of the C-5s used taxying in at Dublin in May 1978 -

[JustSomeBloke]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThoZNxy2JZk