This photo put things into perspective

[Skyviper 1,101]

 

Made the F-15s look like hotwheels...wow.

Edited December 8, 2010 by Skyviper

[serverandenforcer 33]

Now just imagine being underneath that thing near the runway when it's coming into land. I got to do that when I was at Gulfport a couple years ago.

[+daddyairplanes 10,243]

they can move fast tho when they wanna, like the time i say one take off right at the start of a mortar attack. heard later the tower told him to hold and the pilot said F@<* youuuuuu......................... and away they went.

 

 

[Lexx_Luthor 57]

pfft

 

They used to do it with slide rules.

 

 

I love the way 99 turns to the runway for takeoff and the once glorious California sun shines off the pure metal fuselage -- they can't do that anymore.

[Skyviper 1,101]

Now just imagine being underneath that thing near the runway when it's coming into land. I got to do that when I was at Gulfport a couple years ago.

 

Wow. The rumbling ground beneath your feet...the entense roar of those engines...I can only imagine.

 

Truely amazing...so improper question here...what about the brown pants factor?

 

 

I saw this thing at an airshow and it made the B-52 look tiny. Then I stood under the nose that was raised up and looked at the cocpit that looked so tiny and thought "they don't fly the plane...it flies them"(I know I'm probably wrong about that)

[Skyviper 1,101]

they can move fast tho when they wanna, like the time i say one take off right at the start of a mortar attack. heard later the tower told him to hold and the pilot said F@<* youuuuuu......................... and away they went.

 

 

 

LOL I'm kinda wondering what happened to the pilot. I mean you can't blame the pilot because that thing was probably the target everyone was wanting to hit.

 

 

And for the XC-99 that plane reminded me of the bomber that props behind its wings like that...well the props, the jets, and the JATO...I would like to see that plane next to the C-5

[FastCargo 412]

The XC-99 should have reminded you of the B-36...it was derived from it. I used to see it all the time at Kelly AFB slowly falling apart after it was retired.

 

FC

[Skyviper 1,101]

The XC-99 should have reminded you of the B-36...it was derived from it. I used to see it all the time at Kelly AFB slowly falling apart after it was retired.

 

FC

 

 

B-36 yup that's the one.

 

So is the B-36 bigger than the C-5?

[+Dave 2,322]

The XC-99 should have reminded you of the B-36...it was derived from it. I used to see it all the time at Kelly AFB slowly falling apart after it was retired.

 

FC

 

 

Its now sitting in pieces here at Wright Patt waiting to be restored.

 

 

 

 

 

[Viggen 644]

Got any pictures of it or any other aircraft waiting for restoration, Dave?

[ezlead 42]

I rode on a C-5 from Okinawa to Guam.

We went up the front boarding stairs into the aircraft and then walked down the catwalk back to the stairs leading up to the passenger compartment.

It was full of jet engines in their shipping cans. There had to be over 50 of them.

I have walked into hangars that looked smaller than that thing.

The power it had when they poured the cobs to it for take-off was really unbelievable.