Tag: C17

Hub and Spoke

| October 27, 2011 | 15 Comments

We were discussing earlier this week the UK’s capacity to move personnel in and out ouf Afghanistan, whether the hub and spoke arrangement currently used with a mixture of RAF aircraft equipped with suitable DAS and civilian charters is necessarily the most efficient. This is a complex subject, the sheer volume or equipment and personnel moving [...]

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Don’t Worry, They Always Pack Extra Screws

| November 16, 2009 | 3 Comments

Threading a needle wearing boxing gloves. This amazing series of photographs shows the loading of a C17 at RAF brize Norton with the first of a batch of Merlin helicopters bound for Afghanistan. Not much to say except, brilliant..

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