Exercise Trillium Response: Globemaster III landing
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Colossal aircraft lands at Thunder Bay airportVia: Tony Prudori
West Jet and Air Canada Jazz passengers might have had a little wingspan envy Thursday morning, cowering in the shadow of the behemoth Canadian Air Force’s CC-177 Globemaster 3 that lumbered onto the tarmac at Thunder Bay International Airport.
Its four engines generate 40,400 pounds of thrust apiece.
The plane is capable of carrying a payload as high 72,500 kilograms – the equivalent of 12 of the largest male African elephants on the planet – and burns through more than 11,000 litres of jet fuel an hour.
Lt.-Col. John Tringali of the United States air force, has spent 10 years at the helm of a Globemaster, which in recent years the 8 Wing Trenton's 429 Transport Squadron has used to provide humanitarian aid to Jamaican hurricane victims and helped rotate entire battalions in and out of Afghanistan.
He's been embedded with the 429 since 2007, part of an exchange program with the American military. This week he's in Thunder Bay as part of Operation Trillium Response, a mock ice storm designed to test the province's ability to react to a disaster. Tringali said the plane offers the best of several worlds to its pilots...
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The landing in T-Bay was a blast.Here's the whole topic thread, lot's of stuff.
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posted by Mark, Ottawa at 3:10 p.m.
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and to think we could have bought into the A400M program . . . Pretty soon when you look up "late" or "waaaay behind schedule" in the dictionary you get a description of the 400.
Sorry . . just couldn't resist on a brain dead Monday :)
I can't wait for the day when all four of these land at some airport on an exercise like this one and the first one offloads 3 Griffons, the second one spits out one of new Chinook F's, the third one let's loose a Field Hospital and the fourth one has a whole bunch of Engineers & special tools to help out the Civvies.
Citizens get the picture of supporting our troops when they can actually see them do their thing
Great - so when do we get more?
Seriously, I think we've proven that they work and are useful, but if we want decent availability for both foreign and domestic commitments, as well as proper maintanence cycles, we will need more than four. At least two more, probably four.
Fred, here's what Dictionary.com's thesaurus has to say about "late":
Main Entry: late
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not on time
Synonyms: A400M, backward, behind, behindhand, behind time, belated, blown*, delayed, dilatory, eleventh-hour, gone, held up, hung up*, in a bind, in the lurch, jammed*, lagging, last-minute, missed the boat, out of luck, overdue, postponed, put off, remiss, slow, stayed, strapped*, tardy, too late, unpunctual - also see "waaay over budget"
Antonyms: C-17, early, on time, prompt, punctual - also see "under budget"
(Well, OK, I inserted the C-17 and A400M...Pardon my schadenfreude! :-)
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