I hadn't flown from the flying club I was member of in the past and on a whim decided to drive down there and have a chat with the folks in charge with a view to flying from there again. This is Prestwick Airport which is south of Glasgow on the Ayrshire coast and quiet as far as aircraft movements with a very long runway and mostly fog free which makes a great alternative. A wee bit of trivia it's the only place in the UK where Elvis set foot on a transit when he was in the army.
Anyway I get to the flying club and can't help notice that there are two C-5 Galaxy heavy lifters on the tarmac near the clubhouse, this was very unusual. I was used to seeing C-141 Starlifters which are big enough and Prestwick was a base for USAF Military Airlift Command.
CFI gives me a hi viz jacket and says MAC families are going on a tour of one of the C-5's go join them, wow! Sure enough we gathered on the tarmac and were met by guy wearing a flying suit rank of captain who takes us on a tour of one of these enormous planes. I can't describe how astonished I was at the sheer size of every aspect of this machine, my mate Scott who was a Royal Air Force helicopter pilot reckoned he could fly his Puma straight into the cargo bay and after seeing it I could believe him.
I should have thought of this but George W was on a UK visit and the two C-5's brought his limo and all the mobile infrastructure required, the top folks travelled on Air Force One.
As a bonus there was a 747 being serviced there so I got to clamber all over that too and wonder of wonders a short display by the Red Arrows RAF display team. I have no idea why they did that but as always they were simply amazing.
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