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