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Is this picture real or photoshopped ?
If true is a really amazing climb
I think I'll build a model of this beautiful bird, if there is one
Unless they upgraded to flat panels, the C-17 uses the same 6x6 inch color CRTs I was responsible for developing for the B-2. One of the guys who worked for me left and went to work on the C-17 control and display avionics. There is an interesting story about those CRTs. Due to national security, all B-2 components were required to be manufactured in the U.S. (this later changed to allow equipment that could possibly be built here if sources were cut off), so, my team went searching for domestic high resolution color CRTs. Well, at first we could find no manufactures that built CRTs in the U.S., not Magnavox, not RCA, not Motorola, no one. Finally we did find one manufacturer, Techtronix, an electronic test equipment manufacturer. Not only were they the only manufacturer in the U.S., but, to our happy surprise, they also happened to build the brightess, highest resolution display in the world, almost fifty percent higher than the resolution of the best high resolution computer monitor at the time. Getting this strickly commercial supplier to sell to the government and accept all the associated red tape is another story, including the pressuring and pleading by some very high government officials, and a lot of money. They later sold the manufacturing rights to another company, probably to get away from that red tape.
As for the C-17, it is a young upstart with great talent that, in my mind and heart, has a lot of wars to go through and worldwide emergencies to support before it can match the greatness of the plane it replaced, the C-141.
I'm not familiar with the differences in the glass panels, but here is the C-17 that was at the 2007 Riverside show.
I think the C-17 will go down as one of the greats.
in 1:24 scale?