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Aircraft ID

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  • 04-01-2008 2:13pm
    #1
    Big Dee
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    Hi

    Any ideas on the attached aircraft that passed over Dundalk recently?? Lokks too short for a C5 Galaxy???


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    #2
    View Profile
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    Boeing C-17 i reckon.


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    #3
    *Kol*
    Registered Users Posts: 2,549 ✭✭✭*Kol*


    Big Dee wrote: »
    Hi

    Any ideas on the attached aircraft that passed over Dundalk recently?? Lokks too short for a C5 Galaxy???

    C17 Globemaster maybe?? Hard to tell from the photos.

    View Profile got there before me!!


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    Steyr
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    Good catch thats a Boeing C-17 Globemaster 111 en route to RAF Mildenhall.


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    #5
    Big Dee
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    Steyr wrote: »
    Good catch thats a Boeing C-17 Globemaster 111 en route to RAF Mildenhall.


    Sorry - should have said it was due West. Thanks guys.


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    Steyr
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    Off to America then!


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    Oilrig
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    The RAF have leased at least one.

    I have a pic I took of one of them in Indonesia in the not so distant past.

    If it is a C17a, it could be on its way to anywhere...

    Its a strategic lift asset.


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    APM
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    without a doubt that is a C17

    http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1237371/L/

    Beautiful machine


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    Steyr
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    Oilrig wrote: »
    The RAF have leased at least one.

    The first of 4 Boeing C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft, leased to meet the Royal Air Force's short term strategic airlifter requirement, arrived in May 2001. No. 99 Squadron was reformed earlier in the year to operate the aircraft in the strategic airlift role at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire. They are now increasing that number to 10.


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