Cool Pics

[SOLER]

I just wanted to post a couple of cool pics of my 3rd Gen parked by a C-5A Galaxy! I was pretty happy when Base Ops let me drive it out there. It doesn't happen very often. I was giving a tour of the C-5 for some friends, and I just HAD to get a pic of this!!



SOLER

 

[DAvaux]

Very Nice Soler. It would have been even better if you could have talked them into letting you tow it across the tarmac.

 

[robert4570]

Awesome pic Soler, its worth saving.

Thanks



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05' 3500 ctd 6spd on order and still waiting

 

[SOLER]

It would have been even better if you could have talked them into letting you tow it across the tarmac.

:-laf :-laf :-laf



Well, if I did hook this up, I'd have the all time high towing record for these trucks! This bird as it sat here today weighs 500,000 lbs!! :--)



SOLER

 

[Pawpaw]

Make sure you put those pics in your Reader's Rigs. It would be sweet to see that on the TDR homepage some day!



Bob





USAF, Ret.

 

[BKenny]

Cool ,Nice rig i live right by Travis AFB those things fly over my house every day i love that sound . My dad is retired CoastGaurd when i was kid the whole family got to fly to Hawaii in one

 

[WStoops]

Years ago a friend of mine, a pilot in the ANG was flying a C5 to an air show in Quonset, RI. I flew my light twin in that day for the show. He tried to get me permission to park under that massive wing and get a picture but was denied at the last minute. Hang on to that one. They did fly a Pitts Special ( fast as he could go) in formation with an F-18 (slow as he could go), and a P-51 Mustang in a wide formation around the airport. What a mix. Thanks for the pic.

 

[Cattletrkr]

If that's not cover-photo material, I don't know what is.

 

[gravedigger]

Awsome pictures you got their.

 

[SOLER]

They did fly a Pitts Special ( fast as he could go) in formation with an F-18 (slow as he could go), and a P-51 Mustang in a wide formation around the airport. What a mix. Thanks for the pic.

One of the coolest things I saw was an F15 and a P51 in formation at Vance AFB. They flew with the Eagle in Lead, and then swapped and the Mustang was Lead. The Eagle is the Pre-eminent Fighter of today, and the jet age, but the Mustang is THE Pre-eminent Fighter of all time! That was on the Discovery channel where they compared all the fighters of certain eras. The P-51 of WWII, the F-86 of Korea, the F-4 of Vietnam, and the F-15 for today. The F-15 won for the era of today, plus for the jet-age. The Mustang was hands-down the winner for WWII, and hands-down the winner overall for its contribution during its era.



Airplanes are cool. I'm going to miss ole Freddy when I move this winter. I'll still be flying, but there's nothing like this big ole bird. It's the Caddy of the fleet!



SOLER

 

[gsbrockman]

SOLER :

A sincere "thank you" for your service to our wonderful country !

Greg

 

[CPittman]

Schweeet! Dodge & Cummins: Fastest thing through the quarter mile pulling a C-5 Galaxy! Very nice!

 

[JDerbedrossian]

cool photo soler. and keep it up.

 

[amsoilman]

I just wanted to post a couple of cool pics of my 3rd Gen parked by a C-5A Galaxy! I was pretty happy when Base Ops let me drive it out there. It doesn't happen very often. I was giving a tour of the C-5 for some friends, and I just HAD to get a pic of this!!



SOLER

VERY COOL indeed! Thanks so much for sharing this "once in a lifetime" picture!!



Wayne

amsoilman

 

[AfterBurner]

maybe some day...

In about 6 years or so i might have to copy this photo idea, in front of my B-1 or F-22. if all goes well...

Forrest

 

[AfterBurner]

upon further study...

what is that red strobe on your roof for?

 

[SOLER]

In about 6 years or so i might have to copy this photo idea, in front of my B-1 or F-22. if all goes well...

Forrest

Good luck with all that! The B-1 is way cool. It was on my list, but things didn't work out.

what is that red strobe on your roof for?

That is a magnetic cone. Base Ops had me sign it out. I had to show my flightline driver's license, and I was given the cone while driving out there.

 

[crobertson1]

Awesome pictures. Thanks a lot for posting them and even more thanks for your service.

Craig

 

[GFrance]

That is just too cool. I'd get that pic inlarged & framed may want to show it too your grand kids some day. Oo. Oo.

 

[DarkRAM]

48 ply???

how much lift do I need to run these? Any know what this thing is... besides huge!