Wrigth Pat C-17's?!

[airgator]

Dude, I don't know how else to explain it to you, a nose loader -8 or a 76 (with only a side door) do us no good. We have the CRAF fleet for that. And the 76's aren't for hauling pallets around the system, they are for passing gas, and cargo second. Why are you so hung up on the engineer thing? Who cares if it has an engineer or not? Oh and pull some missions up and tell me -17's aren't hitting tankers to cross the pond, ER or not. The M's first stage proved it's capabilities and that it was worth the $ and effort.

 

[flythere]

The 60K Tunner can handle both airplanes, and they have Tunners at the deid and Man-A$$, transloading won't be a problem! Also they have Cochran loaders at the deid!

We'll compromise, you can keep 8 or 10 C-5M's, they can junk the rest of them and go with the newer, more modern fleet. I haven't looked at g2 lately, I know a non-ER jet can make it from the east coast to europe easy! And depending upon the payload I know an ER jet can make it from the west coast to Europe.

They compromised some weight or fuel for the ability to land on unimproved surfaces less than 3,000 feet in length.

What a jet!!!!

 

[Jafo73]

Heard the news today.. no comments from anyone yet?
You guys haven't even gotten comfortable with you new (35+ yr old) C-5's and now you're gonna lose them?!
Was this something you were pushing for or just management?

Every day we hear new rumors here about the might C-17!

If ever there was a unit that should get the C-5M, it's here at Stewart~

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motch

I can't say most aren't happy about the idea of loosing our C5's (we have the biggest junk ones in the fleet...) but the decision was made way above anyone at WPAFB's pay grade!