C-17 Globemaster blasting out in the Dirt! 🔥 📹: santos_caceres.lv

As a former maintenance guy, I cringe at the dirt falling out of the wheel wells.

Maintenance crew cancelling weekend plans

@SERobinsonJr Two A1Cs get to spend their weekend cleaning the gear compartment.

Giant aircraft 😯

How does it not sink down & get stuck? I’d never have thought a plane that heavy could take off from desert sand.

stop making this false claim it is a paved strip covered in sand

All the technicians that have to clean those engines afterwards.

Wouldn't want to the the maintenance crew that has to repack all those wheel bearings!

Maintenance Chief back at McCord AFB: "You did WHAT to my airplane, sir?"

Okay, but what about the sand that got into the undercarriage mechanism? Is there a procedure to fly with the landing gear open longer?