MGB: Anser to a question not asked CAN A C-17 LAND ON AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER?

Check this out

http://www.b-29s-over-korea.com/C-17_landing/c-17_aircraft_carrier_landing.html

Not a bad Photoshop job.

Good Catch Mike...aside from the obvious of NOT....the handler and the ship would indicate the sun is hard to the right and sligtly forward. The shadows on the plane put the sun almost directly over head and much further forward....

The movie Zelig is one of the best adapted "photo shop" movies ever made before something as simple as photo shop was around FWIW

I see C17s doing touch and goes multiple times a day. And they just wouldn't fit on a carrier. Landing or otherwise.

C17 Wingspan about 170 feet, flight deck width max 250 feet less the island, physically impossible if you ask me. Plus, I don't believe any Air Force planes have a tailhook.


Bill

The scale is just wrong.

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C17 Wingspan about 170 feet, flight deck width max 250 feet less the island, physically impossible if you ask me. Plus, I don't believe any Air Force planes have a tailhook.
Bill[/quote]

Even if the C-17 had a tailhook and the carrier had enough beam and arresting cable to stop the aircraft, I can't imagine the catapult needed to launch a C-17 off the flight deck.

They did it with a c130 in the 70's

My F16s here at Buckley have a tailhook..... and they use them on occasion.

A C-17 is my favorite non-fighter aircraft and you really don't appreciate what they can do until you arrive overjead the field in Afghanistan at about three in the morning and commence a random steep from 20k up and the guy next to you throws up and it just floats in the air in front of him.

Got a very dusty deck!