Plane tragics???

[V8Ian]

Do any plane enthusiasts know what the four engined military jets, buzzing around RAAF Amberley, are?

[Treads]

Do any plane enthusiasts know what the four engined military jets, buzzing around RAAF Amberley, are?

How big are they?

[B92 8NW]

If its a turbofan, C-17 Globemaster, turboprop then AP-3C or Hercules...

unless they've come from elsewhere.

[FenianEel]

Your probably looking at the C-17 Globemasters I'd say
Awesome aircraft, not sure they "buzz around" though.

[JDNSW]

If they are very big and high wing C17 Globemaster or a visiting C5a

Otherwise, possibly the most likely is the 707 tankers if they are still operating.

John

[V8Ian]

Your probably looking at the C-17 Globemasters I'd say
Awesome aircraft, not sure they "buzz around" though.

That's them, I'm sure they "buzz" my house. I wasn't aware that we had taken delivery of ant yet. There is about 100 acres of construction happening, largely for the C17 s. Surely they are not the replacement for the Carrabou (sp?).

[V8Ian]

How big are they?

Big and low enough to make one duck!!

[JohnF]

Surely they are not the replacement for the Carrabou (sp?).


The Aircraft magazines in our local Library say that the Alenia [not sure of the spelling] CJ27 Spartan is the most likely replacement for the Carrabou, but has not been ordered by the government as yet.

One day recently I was at Coolongatta beach when a C17 with all girl crew did a number of very low fly-overs, looking as if they were barely above the tallest skyscrapers. Read the next day in a local Paper that this all girl crew were doing practice touch and goes at the local Coolongatta airport.

[FenianEel]

That's them, I'm sure they "buzz" my house. I wasn't aware that we had taken delivery of ant yet. There is about 100 acres of construction happening, largely for the C17 s. Surely they are not the replacement for the Carrabou (sp?).

Not the Caribou! They'd fit a few of them inside.
They take about 4 times the payload of a C-130 Herc.
Had 4 of them since Nov 06, at 36 SQN Amberley, and there's more to come.
Blknight had a post on here, of him loading one up once.
I think BBC also had pics of them landing on the dirt strip in Tarin Kowt.

[Phoenix]

They have ordered 4 more beechcraft to replace teh caribou. That's like replacing a peacock with a sparrow!!!

the C-27 spartan would be a good replacement because it has common parts with the hercs, but they seem dead set on not ordering replacements at the moment.

But I suppose replacing the F-18 and F-111 is taking the lion's share of the $$$ at the moment.