C.17 07-7188 at Stansted 23-05-2019

[andygolfer]

I was at Stansted yesterday afternoon awaiting the arrival of an IL.76 when this called up out of the blue and landed. It departed to Mildenhall about 2 hours later.....

details: 07-7188, 437th Air Wing.
07-7188C.17 USAF Stansted 23-05-2019 9980 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

07-7188C.17 USAF Stansted 23-05-2019 0006 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

heat haze was a real pain unfortunately so a potentially nice touch down shot with lots of tyre smoke was somewhat distorted

Andy

There's a pic of the IL.76 on civilian aviation BTW (it was a civil registered one).