An even larger aircraft visits Northolt! 

Excellent vid dude and can I just also say: THANK YOU FOR NOT USING MUSIC!! So many nice aviation vids out there wrecked with music. As avgeeks we wanna hear the real sounds!

FLIPPING AWESOME! Thank you so much for not playing music. The sound of those engines - POWER! Fantastic video and thanks for sharing it with us all 😁

Absolute size of those beauties! Wow. And reverse thrust to get around, incredible jets with incredible crew! Real nice footage as usual 😀

Loved the reversing on the ground, like doing a 3 point turn in a mega sized transit van with wings. Such a versatile aircraft, can even operate from dirt/gravel airfields, cheers BluelightTV.

live around half a mile from the end of runway 25 at Northolt so get to see things like this - also in past summers we have got to see the Battle of Britain flight and a Spitfire having a blast around the area

I was very lucky about 20 years ago to have a personal tour around a C-17 by the pilot, my dad worked in America for a couple of years (south Carolina, specifically Charleston) and made friends with other Brits out there, one of whom was married to a guy who flew these beasts, we went to RIAT and it just so happened his Mate was there with his C-17!!! The size of it inside is just mad!!! Best day ever!!!!! I will never forget sitting in the pilot seat of this incredible machine!!!

Imagine being in your garden and seeing these beasts within arms reach… incredible!

Love the way they drop the ramp so the pilot can use his rear view mirror 😃. Who needs wing walkers!

There's something awe-inspiring about a C-17 roaring in over the rooftops of those London homes. I hope they're all aviation enthusiasts!

Uk76 looking good! Nice sense of happiness seing these C-17's flying around knowing ive worked on them. I think its great that they have use of full reverse thrust for reveresing and complex flyiing stuff. Amazing things.

I love the Globemaster such a cool aircraft reminds me of thunderbird 2 love watching them landing such a gracious aircraft.

I was an aircraft structural mechanic on those beasts when i was in the Air Force and got to fly on one. Impressive machines.

Holy moly! I grew up with Vulcan bombers flying over & now Airbus A380s flying into Manchester, but these are in different class altogether!

WOW - stunning! Looks like it'll scrape the roof tiles off lol

This video really takes me back to when I was a young air cadet on annual camp at RAF St Mawgen in 2013. We had just been dismissed from parade so that we could watch a rivet joint AWACS performing noisy touch and go's on the airfield. While most of our view was obscured by billets, NAAFI buildings and hangers, it still emitted a tremendous sound, much like rolling thunder. Not as loud as the tornados that came out to play later in that week, but still very respectable. I simply cannot conceive what it must have been like to have been that close to a landing C17... you definitely have my respect. Great catch!

That's incredible Love seeing these, they just get bigger and bigger as they approach!

I am impressed by the short takeoff especially given the size of the jet.

Great video 👍raf northolt is a place for me to vist in the future and I didn't know a c-17 could reverse one fo my favourite planes

Geezus… that runway was “interesting” when I was flying the G650 and Global into Northolt… big kudos to that crew!

I use to work at that Shell petrol station. I lived the other side of that flight path.

1:13 imagine seeing one of them flying across your garden literally just a few feet above your fence it would be genuinely scary and incredible at the same time

I hear these heavy aircraft a lot in Northolt . Great vid

We had two C-17’s in at LDA recently from the USA. What an aircraft.

Neat catch of that C-17 Globemaster 3

They also do regular test landings at Exeter airport in these planes. Though I live about 10 miles away you can hear them coming ages before seeing them.

I have had the pleasure of checking the roof for skid marks after a C-17 landing. Canada has 5 of them and they practice touch and go landings at our airport in Bracebridge Ontario

Incredible, respect to all you do an amazing job.

Military stuff landing at Northolt nowadays was a bit of a rareity until RAF started their "Baedeker" tours of the UK about 2 years ago. In the 1970s and 80s the military traffic was daily, Andovers, Hercules, Sea Princes, Hs 125s, 146s, the US Navy Orions and HQ comm aircraft. Only occasional now.

Am i the only person seeing this C-17 reverse thrusting with its ramp open!!!!! 👌

We had 2 US C-17's land and park up on the southside pan back in the 90's, both landed 1st attempt.

Awsome video thanks 🙏

C-17 is some bit of engineering thanks for sharing they bad boys can take off vertically as well

Imagine sitting down for a cuppa tea and hearing the rumble get louder and louder overheard!

Used to live in Ruislip when I was a child many visits here !

Saw this overhead on the M25 yesterday, I could barely focus on my driving!!

The C-17 Globemaster III is a well built aircraft and carry so many troops and cargo and is a workhorse for the nations owning them. I worked on the C-141 Starlifter's while in the Air Force and enjoyed working on and flying on those airplanes and still miss them.

I load these as well as many other large military/commercial cargo jets for a living, amazing aircraft and very versatile, you don’t understand the true size until you’re actually stood in one!

That plane definitely has got a loud roar of the engines as it powers up after twice miss approach

Walked into the hold of a C-17 at Lakenheath. They are phenomenal. Top of tail plane is about 50ft off ground.

Awesome video!

What a beast! Fab capture. :)

I remember watching this aircraft depart Northolt on FR24!

You absolute beauty! Thank you for posting this awesome plane which is one of my favourites. Great and skilful filming of the plane from many angles. Liked, adored and SUBSCRIBED! 😁👍

Man reversed that round the corner like he’s bossing a driving test

Nice Catch! You deserve a medal.

I saw this from my school in Ealing. Gutted I couldn't film it. Cracking shots though!

All I can say is "wow" 👍👍

Back in ancient times when 3rd AF HQ was at South Ruislip (I was there TDY quite often in late 60s.) I used to ride the late trains on the Central Line back from London back to that area. There was a great Chinese restaurant just down the street from the tube station so quite often I stopped in for bowl of soup before hitting the rack.

Absolutely very impressive!

@BlueLightTV HOLY S***! Looking at those tyre marks, just really surprised they didn’t blow the tyres out!

Impressive bit of aviating. Well done guys(and gals if applicable)

used to refuel them every day great video thank you !

C-17 is a Beast! MDDs Masterpiece!

Judging by the tyre marks on the runway that did a very short stop and reverse, may need to check the rubber after that lock up! looks like a practice run for quick extraction in an urban area.......

O my goodness those aircraft are nice and low to take good pictures WOW

Had 4 F-15 going over ours together in the Midlands together today.. I love the sound 😍

Don't need an alarm in northolt when you have these beasts waking you up, love the Globemasters

I use to be based at Northolt but never saw anything this big land there!!! One year I got detached to another base who was hosting a joint US/UK exercise. We had a medvac coming in so had to manup the trucks. As we watched one of these reversing one of the crew said that he would take a photo of it doing that!!!

Wow! Beautiful 💙

that is one BIG ASS AIRPLANE!

I could almost smell the heat from the aviation fuel when that Globemaster turned around and then set off 8-))...

great reverse turn - like parking the car !

Wow was für ein Flugzeug, mit so ein Gerät würde ich auch gerne mal mit fliegen, leider war es bei mir nur die Transall🙂👍

That tail fin couldn't be any higher, ...could serve as a trampoline, if they park next to a pool (10 meters deep)! 😍 And hey, it has a reverse "gear"! 😁👍 Impressive plane.

The cockpit windshield on the C-17 is the same one used on the DC-10.

They've been practicing landing these in Exeter airport for over a year. A round trip to Cardiff.

I was stationed at RAF Northholt in the 1960,s when a pan american Boeing 707 landed at Northolt by mistake for london airport.

I was driving that plane. Sorry if it was a bit noisy. I mistimed the clutch when changing down to second gear for landing and it slipped into neutral. Got it booked in for it’s MOT next week. Oil change and new brake pads.

Do you know, for the first few minutes where he was doing the low passes, it reminded me of being a kid and living in a house that was on the landing path for Victor tankers, it looked like they were going to hit the TV ariel... and then came the shot of the landing and omfg , I had to call the wife through to watch it again and we both just sat there making big O's with our mouths at the sight of that thing flying over the rooftops and road. I have never ever seen a road where they actually stop traffic for a plane landing, trains yes, planes, no nope nada. 😂

That’s an amazing feeling

I’m told the C17 pilots are hand picked and the best of the best. It’s the most powerful jet the RAF have ever owned. Flippin amazing!

I imagine NEW insurance for a property adjacent to the aeródromo with a petrol station close by would be interestingly curious to calculate given the risk factor to the householder and the like…. To see that jet pass over the houses with the petrol station so close makes me wonder why they put it so close to the landing strip. I often stood on the platform at South Ruislip tube station years ago when jets passed overhead and marveled at the sight and sound of it all. Still incredible years later and many miles alway, nowadays.

it always amazes me that for such big planes the engines look like they're attachd with such a small piece of metal (galaxy)

Magnificent. I have a new respect for those C-17 after their performance in Afghanistan airlift

That's a whole alot of freedoming coming at your way!

They are surprisingly comfortable for a military aircraft

Only one aircraft, ZZ176, three approaches - woke me from my mid-morning slumber as the approach path is 200 yards @600 ft from my location. Made 3 approaches - the first slightly south of centreline track, the second slightly north and the third "Straight down the middle" (Must be a golfer) - Great propaganda in apparent force multiplier terms. The local natives saw three aircraft (Heads now well lowered below parapet). Funny, when it came to rest, according to "Flight-Radar's" ADS -B report, it was on-top of the Battle of Britain Bunker at Uxbridge ! Saw a bit of FOD (Plastic bagging ?) kicked-up on take-off. Rate of climb is amazing. When they did the take-off last year, the jet efflux blew part of the perimeter fence over. Let's hope its just a general "Keeping- the hours-up"/Training flight and not a practice for evacuation of heads of government. Followed shortly afterwards by an undeclared registration (On Flight radar) Executive Jet which went all the way to Chambery (Aix-les-Bains) - I take it that was one of the HS2 tunnelling boys (Its not the holiday season).

Wow!! Those engines

Saw one a few days ago, they had the ramp open USA 🇺🇸

Incredible 😳

Imagine turning up for your drivers licence test in one of those... Just a quick reverse park, a three-point turn and then pull out and merge when it is safe to do so... make sure to indicate and check your mirrors before rotation...

My all-time favourite airplane.

Quality my friend 👏 👌

That sounds an awful lot louder than the C-5 Galaxies that used to fly over my house at around 900ft.

I was watching the B 52s fly over the other day! Would loved to seen a C5 Galaxy military transporter plane fly over that landed earlier in the morning!

Globemasters are impressive. 4 B52's landed at Fairfield today. I only was able to get back to see " HATE12" fly over my car onto the base

Lovely video! Im in RAF.

Those little jets can really cover quite a distance nowadays can’t they? 😉

Beautiful😀

To live in those houses...yikes....excellent video 👍👍‼️

Wow amazing

I didn't know we even have those planes in our RAFs inventory, what a beast!

i used to live not far from there, used to love the BOB MF coming to visit, got buzzed by a spitfire whilst walking my dog on the fields on the other side of the A 40 🙃

that is a lovely place to live sir

I bet those home owners hate that approach landing.

Thunderbird 2!!!!!

4:00 Very impressive turning circle!

01:00 How big is the Dog if they need that Van? 🤣

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