SPECTACULAR C-17 GLOBEMASTER III RUN AND BREAK | RAF BRIZE NORTON 17.04.23
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- A C-17 Globemaster III of 99 Squadron (ZZ178) stationed at RAF Brize Norton, initiates a series of spectacular 'Run and Break'. This is the largest aircraft that the TCS have seen perform such an awesome manoeuvre that we regularly see with Typhoons, F-15s and F35s.
There is something majestic about watching a large heavyweight aircraft performing such a simple manoeuvre that is so commonly seen with fighter jets.
The C-17 Globemaster III (Globemaster C-17) is a longrange, heavy-lift strategic transport aircraft that can operate close to a potential area of operations for combat, peacekeeping or humanitarian missions worldwide.
C-17 is capable of rapid, strategic delivery of troops and all types of cargo to main operating bases anywhere in the world. The Globemaster’s load-bearing rear ramp and digitally controlled loading systems, combined with the skills of its crews and ground handlers, enable large, complex items of equipment, including Chinook helicopters, military vehicles and other heavy items of specialist kit to be loaded.
It can transport 100,000lb (45,360kg) of freight more than 4,500nm (8,334km) while flying at altitudes above 35,000ft. The aircraft’s design enables high-angle, steep approaches at relatively slow speeds, allowing it to operate into small, austere airfields and onto runways as short as 3,500ft long and just 90ft wide.
The Royal Air Force had been without an organic outsize strategic lift capability since the Short Belfast was withdrawn in 1976, relying, ironically, on civilian operated Belfasts for the movement of such loads during the 1982 Falklands War and making use of chartered freighters.
By the end of the 1990s it had become clear that this capability gap ought to be filled, and in 2000 the Ministry of Defence (MoD) agreed a seven-year ‘lease and support’ contract with Boeing and the US Air Force (USAF) for four C-17A Globemaster III (Globemaster C-17) strategic transports.
The C-17A had become the Globemaster III on February 5, 1993, following on from the USAF’s Douglas C-74 Globemaster and C-124 Globemaster II post-war piston-engined transports. By the time the UK defined its initial C-17 requirement the type was well established in service and the RAF benefitted from access to the global C-17 support network and supply chain. In UK service, the type is typically referred to as C-17 or Globemaster, no formal RAF role/numerical designation (Globemaster C.Mk 1 would have followed the regular pattern of aircraft titles) being applied, since the aircraft was initially leased.
Number 99 Squadron reformed at RAF Brize Norton to operate the aircraft, which rapidly became a stalwart and key enabler of the airbridge operation that sustained UK operations in Afghanistan. Even at the peak of Operation Herrick, however, the C-17 serviced humanitarian and operational commitments elsewhere and rather than taking an option to extend the C-17 lease by two years, the MoD bought the initial four aircraft and ordered a fifth in 2006.
Continued demand saw a sixth ordered in 2007, a seventh in 2009 and the eighth and, to date, final example in 2012. The latter was ordered and delivered within weeks at a reported cost of £200 million according to an MoD press statement.
Humanitarian flights, typically planned and flown wherever needed at very short notice, are common 99 Squadron trade, while the fact remains that when a C-17 taxies onto an airfield ramp anywhere in the world, with the Union Jack painted large on its side, there can be no doubt that UK interests are involved.
In 2022, a Globemaster carried the body of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II from Edinburgh to RAF Northolt ahead of the sovereign’s state funeral in London.
Powerplant four 40,400lb st (179.90kN) Pratt & Whitney F117-PW-100 turbofans
Length overall: 174ft (53.04m)
Height overall: 55ft 1in (16.79m)
Wingspan: 169ft 9in (51.74m)
Wing area: 3,800sqft (353.03m2)
Maximum take-off weight: 585,000lb (265,350kg)
Cruising speed at 28,000ft: 450kt (833km/h)
Range with 100,000lb (45,360kg) payload: more than 4,500nm (8,334km)
Service ceiling: 45,000ft
Maximum payload (2.5g load factor): 169,000lb (76,655kg)
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That opening scene has a movie quality, it's an introduction of a story to be told. Spectacular!
Oiii oiii thank you so much
That was a great shot
IIIIIIINNNNCREDIBLE 👏👏👏👏👏👏
The agility of these behemoths is incredible!
Yes! At first it does not look like something that can off the ground.
The mix of engines,bird song and your superb camera work,is fabulous!👍
Oiii oiii Graham thank you so much
For such a big aircraft that bank angle was insane.Wings cant produce positive lift at nearly 90 degrees.Its just energy and momentum that keeps the aircraft up for a nanosecond.The nose itself looked like it was not turning down but the plane must have slid down alot that you never see on camera.Anyone remember that B52 crash at fairchild many years ago?
Oiii oiii Glen 🤙🏼 when we heard “run and break” from the pilot, we didn’t think much of this but when we seen it with our own eyes, we did get a little goosebump fur on end and at the same time breathtaking to see. And if it wasn’t enough the once, the pilot did it a few times more
@@TedConingsby I agree .Spectacular to watch but understanding how any aircraft actually flies find it Man versus Physics.I saw the Boeing 777 at Riat in 2001 when it was brand new.The pilots were indeed Boeing test pilots and I will never forget what they did.It just should have fallen out of the sky with some crazy bank angles.What I was saying in my first comment and having had flying lessons that in a tight turn the aircraft looses altitude very quickly because it stops producing lift.Gravity takes no prisoners.
@@glennpowell3444 wow that’s amazing. It is scary to watch and all because of gravity too as you say
Sure is grand but the severe bank had me concerned. Thought it was a film clip of the C17 that exceeded the angle and crashed it. Cowboys don't belong in the cockpit. Enough said. 35 years in the USAF, Vietnam Vet and Pentagon weenie. CMSgt Bob Powell, USAF(Ret)
I agree! And I remember that B-52 crash, too. But that was pure pilot stupidity!
It's a big plane but it's still a surprise when standing under the tail and looking up!
Big, muscular, athletic plane. God bless our Nation’s war fighters. 🇺🇸👍🙏
AMEN AND AMEN!
Handles like a sports car!
Nice!
Ooohhh yeah
OMW!!!! I simply love the way the pilot chucks this gorgeous aircraft around the skies!!
Oiii ooiii Naledi 🤙🏼 it was out of this world and couldn’t believe it. Oooohh yeah
I like the fact it has a stick and rudder control system.
What a day this turned out to be it was just C-17 heaven , very different from our usual sights and something Ive never see before but it was amazing to see it and now its here to keep viewing . Thanks for putting this up and I can get my fix anytime now. Great work Nikos. Think its time Ted went along for the ride in one of these
Oiiii oiiii Viv 🤙🏼🌟 I know right? What a legend this pilot is and totally agree, the pilot has to take me for a flight in the C17. Ooooohhhh yeah
From Deb…so nice to see Brize Norton still active. I was in the 8th grade at the on base school there in the sixties; my dad being a USAF officer. With that childhood, I’m completely crazy for military aviation. Your RAF teddy bear is adorable.
Oooiiiiiii oiiiiiii Deb 🤙🏼 thank you so much oooooohhh yeah
I have loved planes since I was a little girl. I'm still little,just 58 years young. Thank you for the stunning filming
Oiii oiiii Margaret enjoy the aircraft… they make us stay young. Ooohhh yeah thank you
One might be getting old, just refuse to grow up!
For a big aircraft the c-17 and the a-400 are amazingly agile this is insane
Oiii oiii Dave 🤙🏼The really are
He thought he was a fighter pilot 🤣
Thanks for sharing 😊
The same thing was happening earlier today. Spectacular!
Oiii oiii Kelvin, indeed it was, we seen on ADSB today
Nice video✈️✈️
Great footage. Keep up the good work. Love your teddy bear with the RAF beret mascot !
Thanks again Robert
You've got to love the C17 haven't you?
Ooooh yeah
Back in like '83 or '84, driving the South Loop in Houston, TX, I saw the 747 with the space shuttle on top, as it was landing at Ellington AFB for refueling on it's way back to Florida. A sight I will never forget. It looked like it was just floating. (No smart phones back in those days). Thanks for sharing the C-17 Globemaster. A great video. Thanks.
Things like this stay with you in your memories. We ain’t forgetting this. Thanks for sharing your memories of the 747. Ooohhh yeah
Nice pictures, nice aircraft, thanks Ted.👍👍👍😊
I built that plane, and many others of its kind when i worked at the Long Beach plant from 1992 to 2011
Awesome 🤙🏼 thanks for building such beautiful aircraft oooohhh yeah
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!! NOT ENOUGH WORDS. STUNNING! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Ooohhh yeah
It's terrific to see the fantastic 'bigger' military aircraft. They excite just as much as our beloved fighters. Plus they do just as important, crucial work. Marvellous stream Ted. Big thanks to you & our aircrews.
Oiiii oiiii Margo 🤙🏼🌟thank you so much. Words can’t explain when we seen this with our own eyes, and then just in case it wasn’t satisfying enough, Pilot decided to do a few more! Amazing. He deserves the patch oooohhh yeah
That is a marvellous flypast of the C-17A Globemaster III and the banking maneuvers is amazing !!! 😊😎
Ooohhhh yeah
Fantastic aircraft better than any fighter .
Sure was a great day! The power it must take to keep that big old bird in the air totally amazes me😍
Oooiiii oiii MM 🤙🏼 This was such a sight and we’ve never seen anything like this before. It is most impressive to see a huge aircraft perform a move that we see all the time by phoons, F15s and F35s etc.
41,000 lbs of thrust.... per engine. I know because I fixed em
@@loyalpatriot9747 awesomeness
How they can throw these big Baby's around is Amazing. Together Britain 🇬🇧 & America 🇺🇸. Undefeatable.
Ooooohhhh yeah
Great pic, great flying...hurray...RAF!
oiii oiii Peter, thank you so much oooohhh yeah
It was a great stream. Should have been called the C-17 Airshow 👌🏻🇬🇧
Oiii oiii Richard 🤙🏼 it most certainly put on a show with lots of T&Gs (upcoming video) and those Run and Breaks. Ooohh yeah
In the days before me. TCS ala DBD!! Opening take off is just great. C17 to this day makes me think? 🤔. How does it fly? An absolute monster. 💯 appreciate watching these massive Military aircraft and good to get a different perspective on speed. Change of pace is cool to witness. Brize Norton doing us proud. Glorious! Lovin your work RAF and the TCS..
Climb high, climb to greater heights..
This was one of those “can’t believe what I’ve just seen moments”
@TedConingsby I know right. Just how do they fly?
NGL I thought that tumbnail was clickbait and was going to come in here and complain how people do that... pleasantly surprised... amazing video!
I was certain the extreme angle of bank was clickbate.
Seems not only was I wrong, the rate of role is increadable. It's such a joy to see a high performance plane in the hands of high capable air crew. Lke a perfectly executed ballet in the sky.
Oooohhh yeah
C 5 is huge
Great video thanks for sharing 🍻👍
Oiii oiii Bruce 🤙🏼 thank you so much
Great pictures of very steep turns imagine the view the cockpit in something that size, thanks Ted and Co.
Ooohhh yeah
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Hi Ted and Nico the pilot of the C17 must have been a wanna be fighter pilot nice one crack on
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Something about this plane - she’s my absolute fav. Big ol girl with legs like an owl 😂😂 Love it! 😍😍😍🥰
Oiii oiii Lesley she is a beauty and she’s got the moves too
Tha's an amazing roll rate for such a big machine. I never knew they were that agile
Oiii oiii Ian 🤙🏼 absolutely ooohhhh yeah. First we seen this and couldn’t believe it… but the pilot decided to do it a few times just in case it wasn’t enough 🤙🏼😎
Fly I like ya stole it…👊🏻🇺🇸
Ooohh yeah
I was stationed at RAF Brize Norton 1985 to 1990 and lived in the male accommodation up by the NAAFI for a few years, the runway was quite close so everyday was an airshow !! Quite noisy though with the then, VC-10s and Hercules taking off ! Great times. This is fantastic footage, cheers !!
Oiii oiiii thank you so much for this. Also, from all of us at the TCS Thank you for serving our country. Sounds like lovely memories. Hope to see you in the chats on our lives soon. Ooohh yeah
@@TedConingsby cheers Ted ! love the Oiii oiiiii, saveloy ( ok, I added that bit ) opening hehe !! Made me chuckle !! I was a radio operator working alongside 244 Royal Signals with TCW UKMF ( Tac Comms Wing ). Didn't see any action as I joined after the Falklands and left before the first Gulf War. I believe TCW went out to the Gulf. Thanks for your kind words and I'll be looking out for your live streams as I'm a big aviation fan ! PS...love the Ted 😁
@@coffeeguy6673 oiiii oiiii awesome. Well welcome aboard and you’ve find the right channel for you waahhhayyy… this is channel is the home to many unique catchphrases and a channel that thinks outside the box by brining you military aviation action from places like Mach Loop and AWRs So on behalf of all of us at the TCS, welcome oiiiii oiiiii 🤙🏼 oooohhh yeah
Fighter jet move 😄
Excellent work by the camera man. I really enjoyed this video and look forward to the next one. Take a bow Sir, you deserve a knighthood.
Not only for the video, but sitting out no doubt for a long period of time on what looks like a cold murky day. Excellent!!!
Oiii oiii Declan 🤙🏼 thank you so much for your comment and thanks for seeing the bigger picture. It takes lots of planning and fighting elements for hours and hours, whilst keeping the entertainment level going when nothing is happening, keeping focused when things are and brining military aviation action to your screens. THANK YOU SO MUCH Ooohhh yeah 🤙🏼🫡
Love it!
Ooohhh yeah 🤙🏼
It's great to see that magnificent machine thrill you! I'm just as thrilled seeing your excitement. That's awesome! I may have built that big bird! I helped build the first 5 off the line - all T aircraft (test aircraft). I followed a few out to Edwards Air Force Base for Flight Test. I was on McDonnell Douglas's Field Service Team (Travel Team - kept a suitcase packed). I was with them until P-26 (Production #26) passed through our Field Service "Home" in Tulsa, Oklahoma (American Airlines hangar) before delivery to the Air Force. I was the first civilian certified to operate the Air Force's Mobile Engine Change "Cart". She's 30 now. That's incredible! I'm extremely glad my girl found a home in your heart! Oh, Clarence "Kelly" Johnson is a hero of mine! #IntoTheWildBlueYonder
Oiii oiiiiii great to hear from you and welcome to our fun (but serious) military aviation channel wow that’s amazing and thanks for sharing this. Thank you for taking part in making these beautiful aircraft. Thank you for your service oooohhhh yeah
I remember when I 1st seen one of those planes in person. It’s ridiculous that someone that big can actually fly
Seeing one the C17 live is an amazing experience, not only because of the noise, but they're quite fast too, in no time they're at like 15,000 ft and stepping, this is second to the A400M for me, great video.
Oiii oiiii thank you so much. The C17 is a beauty and she’s got the moves (fast ones) too
super moist
Didn't see a lot of rudder in that bank, differential thrust instead?
7:34 flexing that T tail!!
Used to see these aircraft flying over Wellington, Somerset , but no so recently....??
It's just unreal seeing a bird like that pulling moves like that at the speeds they weren't doing!!!! SO tight on those turns...can they defy physics here?!! 😂
Oiii oiiii Steve 🤙🏼 it is mesmerising to watch and when the pilot requested a “run and break”, when we witnessed on the screen we couldn’t believe what we seen! And yet, the pilot did it few more times just to completely shock the fur off us. Oooohhh yeah ✈️
👍👍👍👍👍
Big bird c17 love seeing her fly down Cornwall and low such a big bird lol
What a great performance still on my planes to tick off yet
Oiii oiiii 🤙🏼 it is a superb aircraft and never seen this manoeuvre on such a large aircraft before. Oooohhh yeah
Run In and Break
Nothing abnormal, but I was blessed with working at a commercial airport that was also a ANG base. So I was able to see these birds do all sorts of stuff. I really like the short takeoff rolls and short landings. How does something so large become airborne so quickly and then stop in such a manner. BTW The ANG had C5-Bs there before the 17's.
When you see this in real life, can leave a little startled to see a large aircraft so this. And just when the once wasn’t enough lol, it did it few more times just to let it sink in.
Had seen one of the Last export C-17 buzz Dougherty field LB where it was built, doing a high pass dive and break., very similar to your footage although a bit steeper... a testament to the powerful engines and airframe. Also saw the much Smaller prototype YC17 taxiing by the terminal one day by chance. Alas no more production line in Long Beach CA.
Also our 7th grade teacher's dad worked at Douglas Aircraft in 75' and gave handouts on the Douglas aircraft history, and mentioned this design prototype as a future STOL development that could takeoff & land in undeveloped areas. Fun to see the project from development to the last plane built.
Awesome
Was one of the Aircraft Dispatchers at MDC from 1988 to 2002. Dispached several of those. They always did fly-bys on deliveries fli3ng about 100 ft over runway 12/30.
Fat-bottomed girls, you make the rocking world go round!
Actually, it was originally a McDonnell-Douglas aircraft. It had already been designed by them and they had built a few of them when Boeing bought out their company. Boeing finished the project after the buy out.
This manoeuvre is practiced by the C17s at Brize occasionally and has been for several years. Never seen it done by any other Brize aircraft over the thirty years I've lived nearby. Edit: to clarify, VC10s were limited to less that 45 degree bank angle and were a good 100 knot slower on the run in so they were not as noticeable as a manoeuvre. The C17 arrives at 300+ knots with engines howling and exceeds 60 degrees of bank angle. Of course, visiting fighters do it even better.
This was our first time seeing this and it’s rather spectacular and impressive. As we are used to seeing this daily and everyday with Typhoons at my home base, it’s something mesmerising about seeing a C17 do this. Oooohhhh yeah
VC10’s regularly did…….
Definitely a carlsburg moment. Don't get to see C17 just casually crusing round air field
Bud Holland may not have crashed "Czar 52" if he'd been in a C-17...
Seen as you've asked, I've seen a 707 practice touch and go, that is landing and rooling till the mid point down the runway with engines at idle, then spool those screaching engines to full and take off.
Also one saw an all white IAF 707 flying down the Jordan valley really low, following the ground contour at 100 to 120m off the ground. The huge plane was twisting and turning to follow the ground contours, the pilot was working the 707 hard, wings flexing and bouncing around. The 707 is a tough big plane, could hardly beleive what I was seing.
Awesome ooohhh yeah
It’s called a ‘run in and break’. There’s no need to do it, if there’s only a single aircraft. It’s for formations so they ensure the correct separation for landing.
Not quite. The ‘Run in’ is an aircraft entering the pattern/circuit. The ‘break’ is when the aircraft turns sharply and into the pattern, usually downwind but depends on the intentions. It doesn’t have to be in formation. A ‘run and break’ can be a single aircraft or more.
@@TedConingsby its a good way to scrub off speed without dragging the aircraft in as per civil airliners. Fast run and break gets you in the bar quicker and entertains the troops.
@@jimread978 ooohhh yeah 🤙🏼
Strap some AIM-9x's somewhere on there and now you have the biggest fighter jet on the planet.
Tactical approach....assault landing and takeoff.
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For Each 10 Per Cent Bank , Requires 10 per Cent Increased Engine Power .
Nearly as agile as a vulcan and a bit of a howl !
Hmm, no wonder why Mil. structural maintenance cost is through the roof!!
She’s very light snd in a balanced turn and not pulling hard. No stress.
And they run on biofuel.
The fighter pilots must have grabbed the wrong set of keys on the way out...
some sharp banks for a plane that size. Seeing footage like you do from red flag would be awesome if it's even allowed
Is theC17 related to the Pitts special, or is it just that the pilot thinks it is?
The pilot is simply awesome, he is RAF…
Run and Break? That is a landing procedure whereby excess speed of the "run-in" is bled off in the constant turn to final with the flaps and gear being lowered as the speed bleeds off below limits. I didn't see any flaps or gear or approach, just a series of holding circuits along the runway axis. Not a run and break.
This is a run and break. Pilot requested a Run and Break also. This is what he did, the plane run in and there was the break
Sorry chief.. I might of over " G " your bird , !!!
These dont have a good history when it comes to hot dogging
1:12 holly crap i would get scared if i see a big unit like that preform a turn like that ! crazy to see.
The biggest plane i ever filmed was the UR-82073 Antonov 124-100 taking off from my local airforcebase in Belgium. ua-cam.com/video/BJuvFkP4EOU/v-deo.html
Stunning isn’t it. We didn’t expect to see this and just in case we were still in shock, the pilot did a few more oooohhhh yeah
@@TedConingsby my first week around the airforcebase and the local stunt pilot "vrieske" got up in the air and did a same turn over the house were i was ! i did knew of the practise day, jumped in the car and raced away because i thought he was gonna crash on the house 🤣
@@beneluxairplanes wow! Oooooooohhhhhhhhhhhg yeahhhhh Vrieske 💜 we love him here at the TCS he’s another legend
@@TedConingsby yeah he is based at kleine brogel airbase here 2may. he is gonna preform Dusk Demo Training i missed the 1st training last week but hopefully i can film the 2nd !
@@beneluxairplanes he’s amazing. Here is Vrieske meeting me ua-cam.com/video/kdZRla3FGt8/v-deo.html
Bet bitching Betty was loud as hell with her 'BANK ANGLE, BANK ANGLE" screams!
"WARNING WARNING - Loadies coffee about to spill!"
@@mattrika4874 yep....industrial sludge served on C17 galley....they NEVER clean those things. Could substitute as used 10-30 motor oil.
@@chriskibbe2901 Sea King Coffee & Tea - nectar of the Gods!
It all good till they auger it in