All I find out about are C-17's and how they are going

History Channel All I find out about are C-17's and how they are going to make our work stack a ton less demanding and not what they are going to do with the C-5's. The C-17 it's essential transport for outsized hardware. It appears the Air Force is doing the something with the 17's as the Marine Corps needs to do with the MV-22, and that is to put all their investments tied up on one place. The C-5 (A model?) has among the longest "down" times of any air ship in the stock.

Yes, just applies to this base; I have no clue what's happening at some other bases. The C-17 is another winged animal, and in that capacity it gets utilized a ton to show it off. The commanders are playing with their new toy, as it were. It has a few focal points over the C-5. It has shorter departures and arrivals, shorter downtime, simpler to keep up, and so forth. In any case, it's undeniable just by looking that the C-5 is still the enormous kid on the piece. Both planes have their own parts to fill, yet a C-5 can out and out move significantly more things then the C-17 can. From what I see at this base.

Along these lines, the AF is overhauling all the C-5 B models here at Travis with every new motor and cockpits (aeronautics). The A models are going out the window, and for each A model that leaves we're going to obtain a C-17. Thus, to the extent I know, this will be the main base with C-5s, KC-10s, and C-17s. (Also our unit of F-16s and TACAMO). I believe they're going to give the A models to save bases, yet I'm not to beyond any doubt on that. This should happen in the following 5 years.

It doesn't make you somewhat uneasy that our substantial lift whole deal capacities will go down. There was an article today about how our air portability will be strained in the event that we need to go into Iraq. I can as of now see it, an extended C-17. They did it to the 141's and 130's and they'll do it again once they choose they require an air ship like the C-5's.

From what I comprehend they're not disposing of the C-5. They're simply not going to have such a variety of on the double base. They're moving the A models to various bases. Some are really expanding there carrier capacities be overhauling the C-5 and purchasing significantly more C-17s.

Positive, on the C-5. None are being resigned. All are being re-engined, and the hardware in the An's are being move up to the B standard. As far as anyone knows this will mitigate the absence of mission availability issues that torment the C-5. The AF did simply arrange 16 more C-17s, and arrangements to do it again one year from now. It just appears to me that we require more C-5's too. Yet, I do like the C-17 supplanting the 141s. That is an incredible change in itself. I thought they were giving the C-5 a chance to run their life cycles and running with C-17's. These overhauls will keep the enormous young men going for a long time to come.

Each of the A-Model C-5's have been moved up to B-Model particulars aside from certain motor course. That is pending right at this point. Lockheed offered a C-5 C model and 2 C-130J's at the same cost America paid for one C-17. An incredible arrangement for planes that were at that point reliable however the pentagon likes to take risks; or play top picks.

Amid the lady flight of the C-17 before individuals from the Senate, there was an indistinguishable C-17 with the same tail number painted on it on the off chance that the number 1 plane had issues. It was flying a little more than a mountain range close to the base and could replace the essential if it fall flat. Amid the time that the C-17 was being tried it couldn't take a full payload load from the East drift to Europe as promoted. The C-5 and C-141 could do it effectively.

What was the Pentagon's reaction? Make ALL planes stop in the Azores to refuel. We never needed to refuel nor did we have payload for Portugal ordinarily, but since the C-17 couldn't make it, we needed to imagine that we couldn't make it either. It was the greatest act in the non-chilly war world. We were attempting to trick our own citizens.