This morning about half nine i saw people gaping up in the air. i had a look and my god a MASSIVE grey plane was flying overhead quite low. it had an enormous tail with a large large horizontal wing on top of the tail, a very wide body, and four jet engines mounted under the wings near to the fuselage. It had the feel of a widebody Hercules but they're prop driven i think and nothing like as ginormous

anybody know? galaxy? gawd it were big

anything like this?[img]http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif[/img]

Anythig like this? Galaxy

No pix on this thread yet but I'd have said a Galaxy from your description.

Are you sure it didn't have 6 engines?

The only massive plane that i can think of with a horizontal tailplane is one of these, and they have been hired by the MOD before. Otherwise, it could be a Galaxy.

Edit: A C-17 could look like it has a horizontal tail from different angles i guess

Galaxy.
Was it that?

This?

I was lying in the park at lunchtime. A felt a whizz over my face and looked over . It was a Pigeon!

Looked like a c 17 when it flew over me it was bloody big and it seemed to fly into leeds turn around and then fly out again, I am sure it didn't have time to land.

I was lying in the park at lunchtime I felt a whizz over my face…

You should be on the Dogging / cottaging thread surely?

(quote edited for comic purposes)

There was a galaxy buzzing around over Teesside yesterday evening so could be the same offender.

Was it Jimboooooooo!

and you think thats big, check out the b52 at Duxford.

Is this it?

Baby robin.

Are you sure it only had four engines? Check this bugger out! Lmfao

Yea I know its fake, but just imagine the fuel bill! 😆

Are you sure it only had four engines? Check this bugger out! Lmfao

Yea I know its fake, but just imagine the fuel bill!

might of got off the ground better than this one though

vodka burner

😀

It was a c17 Globemaster.

Almost certainly a C-17 Globemaster. The RAF are using a number of them and they're regularly flying around hereabouts, sadly bringing dead servicemen back into RAF Lyneham. It's very rare for a C-5 Galaxy to be over here, I'm not sure if the Americans use them very much these days.

It definitely wasn't one of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSFjhWw4DNo

Operation Credible Sport – a Hercules with approximately 47 rocket boosters to a) stop it and b) get it going again from the confines of a sport stadium in Iran.

Yep c17 globemaster looks about right, incredibly wide and bulbous. Cheers guys what a incredible sight

They're pretty impressive from underneath on final approach into Lyneham when you live on the flightpath and the base is about eight miles away. Surprisingly quiet, tho', especially compared to a VC10, or the civil contractor jets hauling freight over to Iraq and Afghanistan. Usually around four in the afternoon.
[edit]Here's the plane's specs, to give you some idea of it's size:
General characteristics

Crew: 3: 2 pilots, 1 loadmaster
Capacity:
102 troops with standard centerline seats or
134 troops with palletized seats or
36 litter and 54 ambulatory patients or
Cargo, such as an M1 Abrams tank, three Strykers or 6 M1117 Armored Security Vehicles
Payload: 170,900 lb (77,519 kg) of cargo distributed at max over 18 463L master pallets or a mix of palletized cargo and vehicles
Length: 174 ft (53 m)
Wingspan: 169.8 ft (51.75 m)
Height: 55.1 ft (16.8 m)
Wing area: 3,800 ft² (353 m²)
Empty weight: 282,500 lb (128,100 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 585,000 lb (265,350 kg)
Powerplant: 4× Pratt & Whitney F117-PW-100 turbofans, 40,440 lbf (180 kN) each
Fuel capacity: 35,546 US gal (134,556 L)
Performance

Cruise speed: Mach 0.76 (450 knots, 515 mph, 830 km/h)
Range: 2,420 nmi[118] (2,785 mi, 4,482 km)
Service ceiling: 45,000 ft (13,716 m)
Max wing loading: 150 lb/ft² (750 kg/m²)
Minimum thrust/weight: 0.277
Takeoff run at MTOW: 7,600 ft (2,316 m)[118]
Landing distance: 3,500 ft (1,060 m)
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