Something big and very low over Outwood,Wakefield

[lee_fr200]

No idea what it is but its massive looks like a c130 but with 4 jet engines at around 500ft maybe lower

Might be going into Leeds Bradford

Very imposing whatever it was

Wasn't a civilian aircraft

[thetapeworm]

Just came over my house in Leeds too, I think it was a Lockheed C-5 Galaxy from what my furious Googling suggests, sounded awesome

No sign of it on any of the "what's live in the sky" type websites.

[thetapeworm]

From the Yorkshire Spotted topic:

ali_XFR said:

It was flying away from the LBA direction when it came over here.

Edited by thetapeworm on Thursday 15th September 17:12

[RizzoTheRat]

That pic looks like a C17 to me

[thetapeworm]

RizzoTheRat said:

That pic looks like a C17 to me

Leeds Bradford Airport Twitter seems to support this.

Twitter said:

The C17 currently around @LBIAirport is conducting mutual training with us here at LBA. #RAF

[lee_fr200]

Quite an impressive sight tbh

[fatboy69]

On the subject of the C17....

Has anyone seen the video footage of the USAF C17 flying low along the so called Star Wars Canyon in, I think, Nevada???

Awesome to see such a big aircraft flying like that.

[Zad]

According to http://global.adsbexchange.com/VirtualRadar/deskto... it was a C-17A, and was at 3100ft asl over Wakefield. Aircraft to tend to look a lot closer than they really are, especially when they are mahoosive sods like these

No idea why, but it had it's undercarriage down - or at least the doors open. Now it was a warm and very humid day today, and I don't blame it for letting it's undercarriage dangle in the breeze... But it is a bit odd.

Pic (already posted in the Yorkshire forum, so I won't embed it again)

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd237/Zadpics/C...

[Mattygooner]

Was near Leeds today and saw it flying low in a left turn, not a common site down south, never seen one flying, an impressive sight.

It's Military Grey colour was the giveaway, but it looked huge, thought it might have been a C5.

[RizzoTheRat]

Best stunt I've seen from a C17 was at Farnborough airshow a few years ago when one did an impressively short landing, and then did a 3 point turn on the runway. You don't see many planes reverse under their own power