Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Australian C-17 Globemaster Conducts Insane Maneuvers Between Brisbane Skyscrapers (Video)

 

Task & Purpose: Watch an Australian C-17 weave between skyscrapers in ‘insane’ video 

"If the crew's timing is off or if they are slow to react, the jet would collide with a building." 

Big, slow and bulky, the C-17 Globemaster III cargo jet may not be the first aircraft that comes to mind for pulling off insane aerial stunts, but that didn’t stop a crew of Royal Australian Air Force aviators from doing it anyway. 

In a video posted to the unofficial U.S. Air Force subreddit on Thursday, you can watch as an RAAF C-17 zooms between skyscrapers in Brisbane, Australia, while some enthusiastic onlookers drop some very colorful commentary behind the camera. 

The fly-by, which happens regularly as part of the annual Sunsuper Riverfire festival, was a practice run ahead of the formal event scheduled to take place on Saturday, according to a RAAF press release.  

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WNU Editor: The action starts at the 1:36 mark in the above video.

1 comment:

  1. I see no legitimate training purpose that offsets the risk to the people of Brisbane.

    Is this the military equivalent of a tide pod challenge?

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