For Avaition Fans

Here are a whole bunch of pics of various aircraft that work, or worked here. 

Speaking of aircraft, according to the airlift schedule the C-17's left McChord AFB in Washington St yesterday. They stopped and spent the night at Hickam AFB in Hawaii and they should be leaving later today for Christchurch. They get a day off, then do some flight briefing stuff on Sunday, then they'll be here Monday to get meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Woohoooooooo

This is a C-141, the pic looks old and they don't use these planes anymore...

 C-17...BEAST!

Buttons and knobs, neato...

I have no idea what that thing is they're moving, but it's pretty cool.  This is like the helicopter I got to fly in last summer...

A bunch of the LC-130. It's essentially the same C-130 the Air Force uses all over the world. The "L" means it's ski equipped.  It's really good at getting places the bigger C-17 can't, like The Pole, and field camps...

 Using  JATO(Jet Assisted Take Off) bottles to get airborne. They can us them to add a little jet power to get off the ground leaving a short runway or if they're really weighed down...

 I don't know if I ever mentioned this before.  Back in 1970 a C-121 crash landed at the airfield out on the permanent ice shelf.  80 passengers and no fatalities, but it destroyed the plane so they pushed it off to the side and left it. You can go visit the crash site and see it still. They named the airfield after the plane, Pegasus Airfield...