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Providing personal protection during President Biden's UK visit, here one of five US Army Boeing CH-47F Chinooks 14-08456 is caught on short finals to land on their return to Northolt
The five are with the 3rd Aviation Regiment, 2nd Battalion 'Knighthawks' currently based in Germany from where they flew in from
Three provided cover for the various POTUS transfers around London and out to Windsor with the remaining pair acting as spares
Note the Loadmaster's discreet wave
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General Characteristics
Primary Function: Outsize cargo transport
Prime Contractor: Lockheed Martin-Georgia Co.
Power Plant: Four F-138-GE100 General Electric engines
Thrust: 51,250 pounds per engine
Wingspan: 222 feet 9 inches (67.89 meters)
Length: 247 feet 10 inches (75.3 meters)
Height: 65 feet 1 inch (19.84 meters)
Cargo Compartment:
Height: 13 feet 6 inches (4.11 meters)
Width: 19 feet (5.79 meters)
Length: 143 feet, 9 inches (43.8 meters)
Pallet Positions: 36
Maximum Cargo: 281,001 pounds (127,460 Kilograms)
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 840,000 pounds (381,024 kilograms)
Speed: 518 mph
Unrefueled Range of C-5M: Approximately 5,524 statute miles (4,800 nautical miles) with 120,000 pounds of cargo; approximately 7,000 nautical miles with no cargo on board.
Crew: Pilot, co-pilot, two flight engineers and three loadmasters
The thrust reversers are open and the heat haze swirls around C-17 66166 as it backs up to a parking spot to unload. The rear ramp is partially down so the loadmaster can check the progress.As soon as it's parked, one of President Biden's VH-3s will be unloaded and this C-17 will be on it's way again to make room for a second one due in the afternoon.
With the Loadmaster keeping an eye out of the forward door, Royal Air Force Boeing Chinook HC.6A ZA704 makes a low approach up the River Adur towards Shoreham Airport
Using call-sign 'SHF454' she made a very low pass across the field before disappearing up-country
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Minnesota Commercial's Hugo Job has just set out a single tank car at Loadmaster Lubricants at the end of the line near Hugo, Minnesota and is now shoving back to 130th Street to run around its train and start back towards Midway.
MNNR 49 ducks into Loadmaster Lubricants and out in order to run around its train. Fun to see the locomotive disappear into the dark and then reappear out the back. Entertaining railroading.
The loadmaster of ZD981 checks for FOD before the Chinook HC.6A takes off on completion of an underslung training exercise between 13 Air Assault Support Regiment, part of 16 Air Assault Brigade, and the RAF.
An epic place without scale or relativity. Somewhere on this terrible volcano are the remains of a jetliner, which crashed after taking off from New Zealand on a sight-seeing tour. I was on another plane, a CL-130, when I took this. The “L” means it lands on skis. It has no proper windows to speak of, but I managed to befriend the loadmaster, who got me into the cockpit for take-off. Quite by chance, there was a polar sunbow that appeared over this most dreadful and awesome of volcanoes. There is nothing that erupts new earth as close to the Antarctic pole, so to soar over it in peace was surreal. The white sun seemed to welcome everyone below and above.
- Trey Ratcliff
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Loadmasters with the 167th Operations Group lower the ramp of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft before beginning a cargo loading exercise at the 167th Airlift Wing, Martinsburg, West Virginia, Jul. 14, 2021. Loadmasters are responsible for properly loading, securing and escorting cargo and passengers before, during and after the flight. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Edward Michon.)
That's my friend Stu Robertson there taking my photo while I take his photo on the way to Antarctica. That was a loooong flight for sure! We had a great time, though, running around that CL-130 taking photos all the way. I think it was about 10 hours to get down there from Christchurch! But we got to be friends with Randy, the loadmaster. We were warned not to take any photos on the plane before we got on, but we totally ignored that rule and Randy was mega cool with it. In fact, he's a photographer too and we even hung out in a few bars together! :)
- Trey Ratcliff
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Scenes from the now largely abandoned but historical town of Cairo, Illinois. (U.S. Grant's rise and the winning of the Civil War pretty much started from here. i.e. Camp Defiance)
Loadmasters with the 16th Airlift Squadron, and a Videographer with the 1st Combat Camera Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., look out the back of this C-17 Globemaster III during Exercise Thunderstruck. C-17 Globemaster III aircraft from the 437th Airlift Wing, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., conduct a strategic brigade air drop exercise over North Auxiliary Airfield near North, S.C., Dec. 16, 2009, demonstrating the global projection of U.S. airpower. Airborne Soldiers from the 2-319th Airborne Field Artillery, 82nd Airborne Division, Ft. Bragg, N.C., were air dropped in the exercise along with cargo pallets to simulate the seizure of a remote airfield, providing a joint training opportunity for the Airmen and Soldiers. The training mission included airdrops over North Auxiliary Airfield, aerial refueling training and simulated aero medical evacuation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua L. DeMotts) (Released)..
Large Cargo Air Transport Aircraft, Thunder Over the Bay Air Show, Travis AFB, Fairfield, California
What a sight to see!! Parked on the FedEx overnight ramp and retired from service now. This is used for loadmaster training along with a 727.
This aircraft is now owned by the National Commercial Flight Museum in Atlanta.
In the heat haze of a Summer's day and with the Loadmaster keeping a good look-out, Army Air Corps Agusta-Westland Wildcat AH.1 ZZ521 passes a gaggle of Navy Merlin HC.4s while returning to Yeovilton as 'Recon 21'
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Side profile view of a 1959 Chevrolet “Task Force” Series Apache 32/3200 Fleetside ½-Ton Pickup Truck, featuring a 5.7-Litre, 348-CID “Loadmaster” OHV V8, model/chassis code [3234]; in a faded/patina’d shade of “Bombay Ivory”. Age-related black plate registration “542 XVG”, spotted outside the historic town of York, imported to the U.K. in 2019.
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FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA (Dec. 12, 2016) – Loadmasters attached to the 36th Airlift Squadron, Yokota Air Base, Japan, drop care packages out of a C-130H Hercules to a Micronesian island during Operation Christmas Drop Dec. 11. Operation Christmas Drop is an international humanitarian operation that provides critical supplies to 56 islands through the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, Federated States of Micronesia and Republic of Palau, impacting about 20,000 people.
(U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Allen Michael McNair/Released)
Front-quarter view of a 1959 Chevrolet “Task Force” Series Apache 32/3200 Fleetside ½-Ton Pickup Truck, featuring a 5.7-Litre, 348-CID “Loadmaster” OHV V8, model/chassis code [3234]; in a faded/patina’d shade of “Bombay Ivory”. Age-related black plate registration “542 XVG”, spotted outside the historic town of York, imported to the U.K. in 2019.
U.S. Airmen unload cargo from a C-130J Hercules assigned to the 75th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron (75th EAS) in East Africa, March. 4, 2019. The 75th EAS supports Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) with medical evacuations, disaster relief, humanitarian and airdrop operations. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech. Sgt. Chris Hibben)