Sometimes the past and present meet in the strangest ways. Here is a USAF C-17 at the Papa air base in Hungary and a battered, old, East-German Trabant passenger car that had its heyday decades before the C-17 was born.
Tag: C-17
Is there a lesson for SESAR in the A400M?
In case you do not know, the A400M is the military transport Europe has been trying to put together for a few years now and which has recently managed to get airborne. In body anyway because the future of its spirit is far from assured. Why the military needed a new propeller driven heavy transport… Continue reading Is there a lesson for SESAR in the A400M?
C-17s on peace mission
For those of us who worked at Ferihegy Airport in the 60s and 70s, military service was a simplified affair. Just one month of ground-pounder training (as opposed to the two years meted out on the less fortunate) where after we went back to our civilian jobs of, in our case, controlling aircraft. The assumption was that if NATO came invading Lake Balaton and the Great Hungarian Plain, we would be doing the same job, albeit in uniform…