When Fandoms Collide

[hederahelix]

So. I might have been rewatching H50 for some reason. I might be obsessed with "Po'ipu." Certainly no part of that obsession has anything to do with the fact that we get some very nice shots of a C-17.

If anybody else out there is an airplane geek, you might be interested in these photos at airliner.net of not just C-17s in general, but the

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[withdiamonds]

For the past couple of years, my daughters and I have been running the Air Force marathon at Wright Patterson Air Force base in Dayton. There's a different plane on the medal every year, and whichever plane it is, that plane does a flyover at the start of the race.

Last year it was a B-52, and since it cost so much, fuel-wise, to get it in the air, once it was up it stayed up a while, and ended up doing about 6 flyovers. It was beyond awesome.