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Let's hope it does better than the big B-52 shaped RC wreck last month.FlyingJets said:Surprise, surprise, a finished R/C model of the C-17 Globemaster III: http://homepage.eircom.net/~skycam/C-17A_Globemaster_III/
Once it's judged flight-worthy, "parting clouds" or "corridor-in-the-clouds" aside, it's going to be an impressive sight in the sky.
C40_Pilot said:The C-17 definitely produces large wake vortices.
I've landed 45 seconds behind another C-17 in a formation landing. The wind was blowing just right and the vortices remained over the runway. At about 15' AGL, the vortices slammed us into the ground. Whoops.
Another vortice problem was that of personnel airdrop. When we tried to drop 200 lb mannequins from the plane, the vortices were causing them to do strange things. When mannequins were pushed out both doors, on both sides, they would collide in the middle behind the aircraft. We also found that if we tried to drop personnel in formation, the vortices of the preceeding aircraft created such a massive wake turbulence effect, that mannequins falling from trailing formation aircraft would sometimes get flipped inverted on their way down. Bummer if that happens to a real grunt. It tooks years of testing to figure out the right formation geometry so we could drop personnel in a 3 ship formation.
The picture looks pretty awesome, but as posted, the vortices produced are not unique to the C-17. Most any aircraft produces vortices at the wingtips, the magnitude varies.
As pilots (and crew) can you see these spectacular and massive vortices/wakes via something along the lines of an electronic rear-view mirror? Or is it only through photos? And speaking of photos, how in the world do you get a shot like that? The picture is so sharp, big, and appears to have been taken from a wide-angle. Was another C-17 involved? Then there's the matter of keeping the camera steady when seeing something like this. It would certainly be interesting to hear or read the behind-the-scenes story from USAF military photographer who took this great shot.RichO said:Having flown both aircraft......all I can say, is their both REALLY FUN!!!
That's a good article (http://www.avweb.com/news/airman/183095-1.html). Thanks for pointing it out.VNugget said:Yes. Here's a pretty good writeup on tip vortices/wake turbulence and how any lift-producing airfoil produces them.