Happy to see these bad boys still completing the mission. I saw these in the late sixties when they were brand new. A half century later they are still with us.

Man, madar I remember having it on the b models, but it wasn't so bad when they became super galaxies or m models. Still, I remember chasing wires because madar have us a code but it turning out to be the wrong code or wires. From what I've heard from my brothers and sisters, it's way better now. Lucky

C-17's are specifically designed just like C-130's to land in austere unforgiving short strips of land so taking off from a 3,500 ft strip is plenty of space for this versatile beast of an aircraft!

I spent 8 years in the USAF and was always amazed at how fast some aircraft can become airborne. I watched countless B-52's do touch n goes at Carswell AFB in Fort Worth Texas in 1975 Until I left in 1977. I have been on many a cargo plane while overseas at Incirlik AB, Turkey. Traveled all over Europe & Middle East on a C-141 or C-5! Had the Time of my life!

When I was overseas I had chance take off in one of these and I can tell you people underestimate them they are huge but they can take off in alot less of space than people think it's amazing

to give everyone context, this is in tampa, and the airport they landed at is directly in line with runway 09 at macdill. This is runway 09 at peter o knight. it's actually not too hard to mistake one approach for another, as they are very close together, and on the exact same flight path, literally lined up to within feet of each other as far as the final approach lineup.

Actually the majority of airports/airfields have no tower. They have too few landing/takeoffs to warrant a tower or are in controlled airspace such as this field. Pilots follow procedure and use assigned radio frequencies to coordinate movement. It's very common. Many have lights that turn on and off by radio signal from inbound/outbound aircraft.