Dover AFB
Monday, 23rd January 2006 by James Turnbull
Dover Airforce Base is home to the 436th Airlift Wing which flies 28 Lockheed C5 Galaxies, and absolutely monstrous aircraft which can fit a full eight-lane bowling alley in its cargo deck. I can only count 21 22, including the tail-fins sticking out of the hangers, so the other six must be out somewhere carrying very heavy things.
Thanks: Scott Quillen & Jonathan Hoppe
There is a motley collection of aircraft in a far corner of the base:
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Come on you plane nerds – lets see if you can identify them.
I count 22. There’s four of them with tailfins sticking out of the hangars- did you get all of those? One is to the left of the hangar with the two tailfins, and the other is in a little hanger to the upper left of the two planes on the yellowish tarmac.
That motley collection is the Air Mobility Command musuem, so you can probably cheat if you go here:
http://www.amcmuseum.org/
I’ve been there, so no playing for me..
Ha! i was thinking that this was in Dover, UK until I zoomed out.
Go a little North and you find Dover’s Monster Mile. Home of NASCAR’s MBNA 500. View Placemark
I see 22 also, plus another at the museum.