Plane buzzed the channel!!!

[riverracerx]

Who didn't see the giant plane that buzzed the channel today?? HOLY SHIT! I don't think it was a C130, but it was some sort of huge military cargo plane. It did a super low fly-by of the channel, did a 360 and started back for another pass when it headed south. I think we all thought it was going to go down in the channel?? It was a little scary. Everyone in the channel was staring and pointing and it got very quiet.
Anyone get a picture of it??

[Phat Matt]

I would have liked to see that.

[riverracerx]

You could see the rivets on the wings it was so close!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[maxwedge]

I geuss we might have to review the "Any pilots in the house" thread to see which one of us that was :crossx:

[HOSS]

Possibly a C140,,,but they a phucin` huge. :cool:

[phebus]

I think it was a Teradactyl :crossx:
Time does turn back in Havasu

[BigDoug]

We were at site six in the dune buggy and this thing was so low we thought he was going to ditch it, it said U.S. Air force near the rear and it did make a huge turn around the island and headed towards Parker... :)

[Fast Freddy]

well there is a runway on the island but a plane that big would never get it stopped in time

[DaveA]

Possibly a C140,,,but they a phucin` huge. :cool:
A C140? Naw.
Maybe a C150? Now, there ya go....!
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/520/176CE150-bumpersticker.gif
Y'all run fer cover!!
All you pilots no doubt will understand....right?

[ThongMagnet]

I hear it might have been stolen by a bunch of drunk marines playing an april fools joke :)

[wsuwrhr]

this thread is completely worthless without pictures.
Bria

[ColeTR2]

I see 130's often, very low flying up the river here in Parker.

[maxwedge]

http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/520/176CE150-bumpersticker.gif
Hey don't sell yourself short on the terror factor here. Vne is 135-140 Knots on that baby if I remember right (been awhile). Maybe the engine won't get you there, but gravity sure will. :D

[kanedog]

Here are some crappy pics and a video that was done on digital cam. Can someone post them so they come up on the thread.thx.
I am a pilot (non-military) and when a military person gets their pilot license they have a tradition of buzzing their hometown when they get the chance, kind of like a celebration that they accomplished a huge goal(it is). It is not supposed to be done but I think the brass may sometimes brush it under the carpet because it has been done by them and all the people before them.
I don't know if this was the case today, but that was unreal. Good for him if it was his celebration, maybe he was originally from here.
Sorry,no vid, its too large and I suck for shrinkin' it to fit.

[Ziggy]

http://www.***boat.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=12637
http://www.***boat.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=12638

[RiverRatMike]

I see those planes out here in Havasu all the time doing practice refueling another plane. See them up in the air doing that almost everyday.

[SHAKEN Not Stirred]

It was a C-5....
I have been in one and MAN it's.....HUGE!!!
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/c-5.htm
Later,
CJG
:)

[Trash]

That aircraft in the picture was a C-17, not a C-5. Note the winglets.

[kanedog]

Cool, a 160 million dollar ***boat, err, hotplane? Someone always has something bigger, better, faster........

[Phat Matt]

Kanedog is from Canada. They don't have an airforce so don't listen to him. :D

[boatsnblondes]

Sorry shaken, that is a C-17..the winglets are a dead giveaway.....airforce boys having a bit of fun....

[kanedog]

We have an air force, it has like, uh, a biplane!

[RiverRatMike]

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http://www.***boat.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=12640&stc=1

[SHAKEN Not Stirred]

Sorry shaken, that is a C-17..the winglets are a dead giveaway.....airforce boys having a bit of fun....
Ummmmm....
Like I said.....It was a C-17......uhhhh yea!... :rolleyes:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/c-17.htm
Later,
CJG
:p

[Mardonzi]

We were out on Powell yesterday and had the smaller version of the Fly-By happen... Some guy in a V tail Bonanza about 50 ft off the water,,, tooling along and heading uplake... Happenend too fast to get pics though
I think he'd been reading Sleek's post earlier in the week about the water skiing Fairchilds....

[Fast Freddy]

i saw somebody fly a V-tailed bonanza beneath the bridge by the dam at roosevelt lake onetime. i also saw a pitts bi-plane fly down firebird lake with his wheels in the water!

[Beer Factor]

Two apache helicopters buzzed the sandbar on the deck last summer. They turned around and did it again. Pretty cool

[BigDoug]

"The plane that buzzed us at site 6" .......here is a discription of the pilot...
He had sun glasses on with a sumitt homes hat too, sandy blond hair, about 5ft 10-11in. kinda chubby..............hey this is sounding like ? (guess)
Really, this plane was very low, like 500 feet or so

[Tom Brown]

Two apache helicopters buzzed the sandbar on the deck last summer. They turned around and did it again. Pretty cool
Oh yeah.... as I recall, you pulled out your Glock and brought them both down. :idea:

[Tahiti350]

Yep, them there aereoplanes is what the Air Force has had me fixin' fer the last 5 years. That are definately a C-17 Globemaster, Only countries that have them are us and the Brit's (they bought 7). We take them out to the Vegas area for training once in a while. And they have to get low level traiing somewhere.....
I can't tell from the pic's what base it's from. If anyone got a good pic of the "tailflash" (the colored stripe on the vertical stabilizer) I could tell who's it was.
Glad ya'all enjoyed the impromtue air show, that will be $5 per person who saw it, thankyou..... You can send me the money and I"ll make sure I get it to the right person :rolleyes: :p
GaryB> US Air Force
24 1/2 years Enlisted

[Tahiti350]

I see those planes out here in Havasu all the time doing practice refueling another plane. See them up in the air doing that almost everyday.
Sorry Mike, but C-17's don't refuel other planes (That'd be a KC-135 or KC-10), and even if they did it's only done ABOVE 30,000 ft and on specific refuel tracks, so I doubt you'd see it "almost everyday". What you might be seeing is formation low level's or threat avoidance training.
Have a nice day :rolleyes:

[FLEA DIDDY]

Is that the galaxy? Pretty cool I would of loved to see that, did everybody go crazy cheering afterwards? :220v:

[Jbb]

Oh yeah.... as I recall, you pulled out your Glock and brought them both down. :idea:
Chuck Norris once shot a German plane down with his finger, by yelling, "Bang!"

[Phat Matt]

Chuck Norris once shot a German plane down with his finger, by yelling, "Bang!"
Yeah? Well Jack Bauer farted and all planes just fell out of the sky. :)

[ROZ]

I was buzzed in the channel, and farted..nothing hapened.. I ain't got nothing on Chuck Norris or Jack Bauer :)

[burtandnancy]

Why do we have two super cargo carriers, the 5 and the 17. Don't they both do about the same thing, or is this another example of our tax dollars at work?

[JB in so cal]

-5 is much larger and carries heavier loads(and older) than the -17. we also have the c-141, but it's being retired.

[GHT]

Possibly a C140,,,but they a phucin` huge. :cool:
HOSS... That would be a C141.. :) :)
RRX.. Were the plane's motors prop driven or jet? Prop would be a C130. Jet may be a C141 or C17 or C5. Doubt it was a C5 though you would know it for sure, it is larger than a 747..

[core attitude]

I was buzzed in the channel, and farted..nothing hapened.. I ain't got nothing on Chuck Norris or Jack Bauer :)
Classic.......... :D

[Red Horse]

A C17 is a hopped up C 130. It can land on a dirt strip and the like. Just has more capacity than a 130. A C5 is for long hauls with large loads. Like crossing the pond. A 130 and 17 is more for intra theater airlift. C 130s have unique caps and the Air Force needed something that would do similar but carry more and be faster.

[GHT]

That aircraft in the picture was a C-17, not a C-5. Note the winglets.
Trash is right.. It is a C-17... I didn't read the whole thread before my last post.. I hate it when I do that... :mad:

[Mrs.Killer]

HOSS... That would be a C141.. :) :)
RRX.. Were the plane's motors prop driven or jet? Prop would be a C130. Jet may be a C141 or C17 or C5. Doubt it was a C5 though you would know it for sure, it is larger than a 747..
Lets just ask the expert, go ahead Don. :p

[STRETCH]

Why do we have two super cargo carriers, the 5 and the 17. Don't they both do about the same thing, or is this another example of our tax dollars at work?
Though they do the same jobs, C-5 and C-17 are very different. These jets are the main transpo for the 4 services, so the more the merrier(my opinion). The C-5 is gettin old, and the 17 is taking it's place (eventually). Awesome shots of the plane doing a low altitude pass over the lake! I'll see if I can't get my crew to do the same thing someday...just don't let the commander find out! I like my job, almost as much as I like my boat.... :rollside:
STRETCH

[SmokinLowriderSS]

well there is a runway on the island but a plane that big would never get it stopped in time
You'd be absolutely amazed where you can land a C-17, anywhere you can land a C-130, and once ... ONCE ... they landed a 130 on an aircraft carrier (back in the '50's). They have the most kick-ass thrust reversers ever. I got to watch one taxi backwards on it's own, overseas, fully loaded w/ humanitarian relief suplies for Afghanistan, winter '01/'02. The way it shook was scarry.
The minimum runway spec for it is 3000' by 90' wide, loaded, pavement NOT required. Payload, 170,900 pounds maximum.

[gigamurph]

I was buzzed in the channel, and farted..nothing hapened.. I ain't got nothing on Chuck Norris or Jack Bauer :)
:D ROTFLMMFAO! Been there, done that!....and btw; that is not a plane. That is Reinnel's entry into the custom boat market! Gonna be big sellers for the big fellers! :p

[DaveA]

Our nickname for the C5 is "Aluminum Overcast". When that big sucker slowly flies over, the sun is blocked out for so long that the chickens go to roost, the cows head for the barn, and the temperature drops 5 degrees.
Bob Hope once commented on a short field landing in a C130 in Vietnam. The pilot pulled the props back into beta (reversed them) about 2 feet off the ground to plant it and get stopped. Hope said they hit so hard the next thing he knew his shorts were around his neck.
.

[BoatFloating]

I think March AFB just took delivery on 2 of those bad boys. I seem them flying around my area all the time.

[Heater]

I applaud the pilot and crew for a great pass to show the taxpayers what they are buying, however, I assure you that his ass will be in a big ringer if anyone finds out......I know of no reason for approval to buzz the channel at Havasu for any kind of training...Great airplane with tons of power!!

[FLOJO]

thats a c-17. did the plane have a green stripe on the tail?

[TCHB]

We were down by Steamboat and he was really low banking into the next corner. It was a great show!!!!!!!!!

[Marty Gras]

I was buying fuel at the marina when the plane came over. The wing tip was about 120' above the ground. A 'flyer' dropped out of it, and it read "Paris Hilton" has hi-jacked this plane! "We will fly over you until we find a REAL PARTY. If you cannot produce a REAL PARTY on our next 'go round', we will be forced to move on! They then went on to Parker, where the "party was in progress". Thank god for the AMERICAN AIR FORCE! They know how to party!

[Fast Freddy]

the C-17 pilot was flyin down low to get a better look at the trim in the channel.......

[Wake Havasu]

I saw it too!
http://***boat.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=12663&stc=1

[KACHINA KEN]

That aircraft in the picture was a C-17, not a C-5. Note the winglets.
I threw up an MRE in a C5 before :boxed:

[fat rat]

That aircraft in the picture was a C-17, not a C-5. Note the winglets.
Roger that on the C-17! I'm actually surprized they did that. :cool:

[boatsnblondes]

Also, a C5 will usually blot out the sun as they go by..they are that much bigger than a C17....and the noise would have been deafening....for those of you still not convinved..go here;
http://www.flightlevel350.com/video_streaming.php?id=3770

[JB in so cal]

DOVER, Del. - A huge military cargo plane developed problems after takeoff and crashed attempting to return to Dover Air Force Base on Monday, breaking apart short of the runway, officials said. All 17 people aboard survived, though several were injured.
The C-5 Galaxy, the military's largest plane, broke in two just behind the cockpit, leaving the cockpit at a right angle to the fuselage. The tail assembly ended up several hundred yards from the plane, and one of the engines was thrown forward by the impact, but there was no evidence of fire.
Fourteen people from the plane were taken to Kent General Hospital in Dover, none with life threatening injuries, officials said. Three others were taken to Christiana Care in Newark, said hospital spokeswoman Sharon Justice.
The C-5 was being flown by a reserve crew from the 512th Airlift Wing, said Capt. John Sheets of the Air Mobility Command at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
According to initial reports, the plane had just taken off and had some indications of a problem, said Col. Ellen Haddock, spokeswoman at the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff. It turned back to land and fell short of the runway, she said. It wasn't immediately clear if the plane was carrying cargo when it went down.
Emergency crews, some in hazardous materials suits, examined the wreckage Monday morning in light rain and under overcast skies.
Lisa Barrentine, who lives near the crash site, said she was in bed when she heard a rumbling.
"You could hear the windows shaking," Barrentine said. She said planes normally fly over her property, which lies at the southern end of the runway between the base and the Atlantic coast.
The C-5 Galaxy, made by Lockheed, is one of the largest aircraft in the world. It was first delivered to the military in 1970. Even with a payload of 263,200 pounds, the latest version can fly non-stop for 2,500 miles at jet speeds, according to Lockheed Martin Corp.
Dover is home to the 436th Airlift Wing, with more than 4,000 active-duty military and civilian employees, and operates the largest and busiest air freight terminal in the Defense Department. The base is also home to the Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs, which processes bodies from the nation's wars.

[JB in so cal]

Pics!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/us/040306doveraircrash;_ylt=Am9cYLnCvmrEKfQzCZX3xBJH2 ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3bGk2OHYzBHNlYwN0bXA-

[riverracerx]

I told my wife to pick up the baby and get ready to run. I thought it was going DOWN!

[SummitKarl]

they do this stuff all the time during the week (Spring and Fall), scares the crap out of me when they sneek up and my whole house shakes :rolleyes:
upside, at least once a week we are treated to dog fights, about 4pm and again at 9pm, after burners look very cool at night :)

[Marty Gras]

It takes "power on" to make a turn like that. I knew it was a "fly by" because he kept it at the same precision 45 degree bank. I don't think the "Taliban Air Force" got to the part of their manuals, about "tuning a big plane". After the 'go 'round', the pilot then made more "military manuvers" down the lake. In China, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, the people on the ground would fire weapons at the plane, in Havasu, we just wave and 'flash' them.

[BajaMike]

I noticed this video of a B-1B bomber taking off at Long Beach...
B-1B (http://www.flightlevel350.com/video_streaming.php?id=4024)
Pretty cool....
:cool:

[Big Bear]

We were in Steamboat on Photogluo's boat when he buzzed over us. Almost looked like he was going down when he disappeared over the hill at the south end.

[PHOTOGLOU]

We were in Steamboat on Photogluo's boat when he buzzed over us. Almost looked like he was going down when he disappeared over the hill at the south end.
Thanks Big Baer spell that name right next time.....

[BajaMike]

Who didn't see the giant plane that buzzed the channel today?? HOLY SHIT! I don't think it was a C130, but it was some sort of huge military cargo plane. It did a super low fly-by of the channel, did a 360 and started back for another pass when it headed south. I think we all thought it was going to go down in the channel?? It was a little scary. Everyone in the channel was staring and pointing and it got very quiet.
Anyone get a picture of it??
Did the guy at the marina kick the C-17 out for too loud exhasts???
http://www.***boat.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=12638
:rollside: :D

[SHAKEN Not Stirred]

Here's a few more.....
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/520/1780IMG_0466.JPG
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/520/1780IMG_0467.JPG
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/520/1780IMG_0469.JPG
Photo courtesy...Mike Bobbitt....
Later,
CJG
:rollside:

[SHAKEN Not Stirred]

Photogluo's .........
Hehehehehehe!!!!
Jay.....You know us Americans can't speak Greek !!!!!!!
Later,
CJG
:p

[Throttle]

that was koool! :rollside:
do it again, do it again!

[Redrider]

Chris, your correct. I think we all were ready to run.
It was too low!
Nice photos peeps.

[Fast Freddy]

I noticed this video of a B-1B bomber taking off at Long Beach...
B-1B (http://www.flightlevel350.com/video_streaming.php?id=4024)
Pretty cool....
:cool:
looks and sounds like a GIANT fighterjet, thanx 4 sharin