Fly Over

[Bizzness33]

Little help with what kind of plane that was for the fly over, had whiskey goggles on little hard to see, outside of the size of that beast. Kill thread after answer please

 

[SDV]

I thought I was going to open up this thread with someone complaining about the flyover. Lol

 

[twoffo]

Little help with what kind of plane that was for the fly over, had whiskey goggles on little hard to see, outside of the size of that beast. Kill thread after answer please

C5 Galaxy

 

[savannahfan]

C5 Galaxy

Those things a monsters. From the shadow shown for a few seconds on TV, you could still tell it was "the big boy". They seem to be flying at about 20mph they are so big.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

 

[Bizzness33]

Thanks guys, that thing was jaw droppingly huge

 

[Stoked]

Thanks guys, that thing was jaw droppingly huge

Twss

 

[TAF]

COOLEST Flyover EVER!

 

[HuntlandVolinColo]

COOLEST Flyover EVER!

You should see Air Force vs Navy play. All the bombers and fighters are flyover between opening and halftime, including stealth bomber, SR-71 before retirement, etc.

 

[BearCat204]

Those things a monsters. From the shadow shown for a few seconds on TV, you could still tell it was "the big boy". They seem to be flying at about 20mph they are so big.

They are huge. When we would forward deploy to OEF, we would stuff two of our 60B helicopters in a C5 and there was still plenty if room.

 

[Hacksaw]

From the 436th Airlift Wing out of Dover AFB (Delaware).

The pilot is a VT alum, evidently

 

[DyronNix]

I hadn't even thought about a pre-game flyover and wasn't expecting it when it happened. Someone told me to look up and I saw this huge shadow slowly approaching overhead. It was spectacular to see and I am sure I've never seen an aircraft that size before. It almost didn't seem real. Definitely an unexpected highlight.

 

[rtb1983]

Holy crap. They can fit an A-10 in the nose of that thing?!?!?!? In my personal experience the burp of a warthog providing air support is the most satisfying noise in the world.

 

[C1500]

I have always loved planes, even more so military planes. That bad boy flying over was amazing.

 

[InfiniteVol]

29 year Air Force guy here. I've flown in C5s before. Very interesting because you actually sit backwards. Although you can barely tell it because it is so big. Hard to tell that you are flying at all. C5s are being replaced by C17s.

 

[UT_Dutchman]

One of the biggest planes for the biggest game!
Go Vols!

 

[Mustng959]

29 year Air Force guy here. I've flown in C5s before. Very interesting because you actually sit backwards. Although you can barely tell it because it is so big. Hard to tell that you are flying at all. C5s are being replaced by C17s.

Security Police AF veteran here. Cost of a C5 put in a class where we had to pull close-in security on it.Rode upstairs in one from Dover to Ramstein Germany. Does feel weird landing and taking off as like you said, you're sitting backwards.

 

[bboarding3]

Surpised it took off on time. Anyone that has worked with this plane will understand. I have loaded some pretty cool stuff on it though. Loaded a "small" sub on there before.

 

[molsen81]

USAF vet. We have both C-5 & C-17 aircraft out here at Travis AFB. Funny thing is I never see them in the air now that I'm on the other side of Solano County.

 

[_ryan01]

Surpised it took off on time. Anyone that has worked with this plane will understand. I have loaded some pretty cool stuff on it though. Loaded a "small" sub on there before.

FRED's. Lol