C-17 Ride

by Joshua Thompson

Uploaded 18 Jul 2008 — 22 favorites

© Joshua Thompson

This was taken on the 38 hour plane trip over to Afghanistan from Fort Riley, KS

13 responses

  • Christopher Smith

    Christopher Smith   gave props (18 Jul 2008):

    Wow.

  • Lynn H

    Lynn H gave props (18 Jul 2008):

    Holy cow! I never knew they were THAT huge! Great shot!

  • Virginie Maillard

    Virginie Maillard   said (18 Jul 2008):

    Incredible!...I didn't imagine this place like this!

  • Michael Diamond

    Michael Diamond said (18 Jul 2008):

    Good grief what a beast of a machine! Trying very hard to spot where business and cattle class meet!

  • Katrina Brooks

    Katrina Brooks gave props (19 Jul 2008):

    Wow, I would love to see this one larger to study the detail. Excellent photo. I flew in a C-130 once and this looks MUCH bigger!

  • Warren ~Mangione~

    Warren ~Mangione~   gave props (20 Jul 2008):

    Wow, deluxe accomodations. LOL About all you can do on a flight like that is sleep and eat. It was 24 hrs to Nam.

  • Katrina Brooks

    Katrina Brooks gave props (20 Jul 2008):

    Thanks for sending the larger version.... Excellent, its like one of those Where's Waldo photos where you just want to look at everything in the picture. Great job!

  • Nicholas Pantages 

    Nicholas Pantages  gave props (17 Oct 2008):

    yikes, 38 hour plane ride. props for that alone.

  • Elenore Agagas

    Elenore Agagas gave props (22 Oct 2008):

    nice how you captured the massiveness of the plane. did you take this with a wide angle lens?

  • Lisa Slifko

    Lisa Slifko gave props (29 Oct 2008):

    This is massive. Excellent image. Thanks for sharing.

  • Freddy Sarabia

    Freddy Sarabia   gave props (3 Nov 2008):

    Never knew how huge they were. Great Shot! Thanks for sharing.

  • C.S. Muncy

    C.S. Muncy said (31 Jan 2009):

    I used to fly in the C-141 twice a month...always exciting, though more often then not it'd be a terrifying ride. Now that it's been retired, I fly either on the C-17 or the HC-130 (joined up witha rescue wing about a year ago.)

  • Tim Narraway

    Tim Narraway said (5 Apr 2009):

    More comfy than a c130 by the looks of things

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