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US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac #258822 06/20/2021 03:07 PM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 575 Bucks County, PA S snuba OP Traveler OP snuba Traveler S Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 575 Bucks County, PA At BSV now and there is C17 is sitting on tarmac now. Didn’t catch him land but hoping to catch take off. Don’t know how to post pictures, sorry. Luda Last edited by ruralcarrier; 06/20/2021 04:40 PM. Life is short, travel the World.

Re: US Air Force plain is sitting on tarmac snuba #258829 06/20/2021 03:57 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! Carol_Hill Traveler Carol_Hill Traveler Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! Thanks for posting!! I just saw this and went out there. Wow, I saw it take off and took some pictures, but missed the best part!! After it took off, it came back around and either did a touch and go or a low level flight over the runway! Man, I wish I had seen that!! I just heard a large noise and looked out and saw it out over Pelican.. Carol Hill

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac snuba #258833 06/20/2021 04:42 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! Carol_Hill Traveler Carol_Hill Traveler Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! Pictures from today. This was cool! He had to wait to take off, for this little pipsqueak to land!!! Carol Hill

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac snuba #258834 06/20/2021 04:58 PM Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 231 South Jersey USA eilandmens Traveler eilandmens Traveler Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 231 South Jersey USA Saw it do practice approach and later an almost touch and go -came in low then took off sort of a Navy touch and go or just a thank you fly by

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac Carol_Hill #258835 06/20/2021 05:00 PM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 575 Bucks County, PA S snuba OP Traveler OP snuba Traveler S Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 575 Bucks County, PA Thanks for posting those pics Carol. It was awesome to watch. Life is short, travel the World.

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac eilandmens #258836 06/20/2021 05:03 PM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 575 Bucks County, PA S snuba OP Traveler OP snuba Traveler S Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 575 Bucks County, PA I wish I saw that! Life is short, travel the World.

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac snuba #258837 06/20/2021 05:08 PM Joined: Jan 2015 Posts: 736 Likes: 2 South Coast of MA S SXMBND Traveler SXMBND Traveler S Joined: Jan 2015 Posts: 736 Likes: 2 South Coast of MA Ditto......great shots. Thanks.

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac snuba #258838 06/20/2021 05:09 PM Joined: May 2002 Posts: 5,540 Likes: 4 Kennys Traveler Kennys Traveler Joined: May 2002 Posts: 5,540 Likes: 4 Cool pics !

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac snuba #258842 06/20/2021 05:21 PM Joined: Mar 2018 Posts: 24 Idaho R Rumlover Traveler Rumlover Traveler R Joined: Mar 2018 Posts: 24 Idaho Here's the address to see it take off and do the low altitude fly by. https://www.mahobeachcam Click on the "Show Flightrader 24 Map and Twitter Feed" Copy and paste the address to your browser. Last edited by Rumlover; 06/20/2021 05:22 PM.

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac Carol_Hill #258848 06/20/2021 08:05 PM Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 123 Virginia dfmsml Traveler dfmsml Traveler Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 123 Virginia Looks like C-17 from joint base Charleston, SC on a training mission dfmsml

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac Rumlover #258849 06/20/2021 08:23 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! Carol_Hill Traveler Carol_Hill Traveler Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! OK, anyone got a better link there, as I couldn't find the video. Carol Hill

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac snuba #258850 06/20/2021 08:31 PM Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,917 B Bahston Traveler Bahston Traveler B Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,917 Try https://youtu.be/Kcmnu1qyfOo

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac Bahston #258852 06/20/2021 09:09 PM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 575 Bucks County, PA S snuba OP Traveler OP snuba Traveler S Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 575 Bucks County, PA Thanks for the link Life is short, travel the World.

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac Bahston #258854 06/20/2021 09:36 PM Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 19,500 Likes: 5 Auburn, WA SXMScubaman Traveler SXMScubaman Traveler Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 19,500 Likes: 5 Auburn, WA Originally Posted by Bahston Try https://youtu.be/Kcmnu1qyfOo Sweet.

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac Bahston #258858 06/21/2021 05:10 AM Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 5,123 Likes: 2 Massachusetts boucharda Traveler boucharda Traveler Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 5,123 Likes: 2 Massachusetts Thanks for the link ...and great pics Carol

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac snuba #258859 06/21/2021 05:16 AM Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 393 Likes: 1 East Haven, CT Wingman Traveler Wingman Traveler Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 393 Likes: 1 East Haven, CT Thank you for the pictures and the link. That was great.

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac Bahston #258864 06/21/2021 06:57 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! Carol_Hill Traveler Carol_Hill Traveler Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! Cool!! Thanks. I wish we had seen the flyover part. Didn't know they were going to do that! Carol Hill

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac snuba #258898 06/21/2021 10:53 AM Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 94 actionone Traveler actionone Traveler Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 94 That was really cool

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac snuba #258913 06/21/2021 12:42 PM Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 368 Kansas City Missouri kccouple Traveler kccouple Traveler Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 368 Kansas City Missouri Pretty cool. As a USAF Vet I miss seeing the planes. C-17 looks big but still the little brother to the C-5!

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac kccouple #258921 06/21/2021 02:19 PM Joined: May 2002 Posts: 5,540 Likes: 4 Kennys Traveler Kennys Traveler Joined: May 2002 Posts: 5,540 Likes: 4 Our youngest Brother son flies a KC 135 .

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac snuba #258982 06/22/2021 09:08 AM Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,965 St. John, USVI RickG Traveler RickG Traveler Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,965 St. John, USVI We saw this big fellow fly in as we hit the roundabout from the causeway. Cheers, RickG

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac snuba #258997 06/22/2021 11:24 AM Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,965 St. John, USVI RickG Traveler RickG Traveler Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,965 St. John, USVI I saw the plane taxiing at around 12:15PM. No take off yet. Last edited by RickG; 06/22/2021 11:24 AM.

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac RickG #258998 06/22/2021 11:26 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! Carol_Hill Traveler Carol_Hill Traveler Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! Sorry, it's back??? That was Sunday. Edit, can't tell if it's the same plane or not. This time, will watch to see if it comes back around! Last edited by Carol_Hill; 06/22/2021 11:30 AM. Carol Hill

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac snuba #258999 06/22/2021 11:36 AM Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,965 St. John, USVI RickG Traveler RickG Traveler Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,965 St. John, USVI She just took off and flew right over our boat. She's a big girl!

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac RickG #259001 06/22/2021 11:41 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! Carol_Hill Traveler Carol_Hill Traveler Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! Guess they didn't do a fly-over this time around. Cool to see in person, for sure! Looks like the weather isn't optimal today. Carol Hill

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac snuba #259011 06/22/2021 12:07 PM Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,650 Vermont, North Carolina sxmmartini Traveler sxmmartini Traveler Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 7,650 Vermont, North Carolina I have never in my 39 years going to St. Maarten watched a US Airforce plane land in SXM. I did see a Russian cargo plane land after the hurricane in 1995 with a new generator for the island.

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac sxmmartini #259012 06/22/2021 12:10 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! Carol_Hill Traveler Carol_Hill Traveler Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! One of the car rental guys told us that normally when US planes land, they are bringing medical supplies. Anyone know whether that was the case this time? Interesting that they were there on Sunday and came back--either that, or it was a different plane. I couldn't tell. Carol Hill

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac Carol_Hill #259074 06/22/2021 05:48 PM Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,821 Likes: 2 United States of America bdeeley Traveler bdeeley Traveler Joined: Oct 2013 Posts: 1,821 Likes: 2 United States of America Same Plane... Be Happy! Simply because you deserve to be. 😁

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac snuba #259082 06/22/2021 07:43 PM Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,917 B Bahston Traveler Bahston Traveler B Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,917 Same type, different plane, and different tail numbers. Today's C-17 was Mississippi Air National Guard.

Re: US Air Force plane is sitting on tarmac Bahston #259090 06/22/2021 08:46 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! Carol_Hill Traveler Carol_Hill Traveler Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 84,002 Likes: 4 Central Florida! OK, thanks. I couldn't see whether it said Charleston on the tail or not, to know if it was the same plane. Carol Hill