If you think Spirit Airlines is barebones, try flying on Space-A, where you might get a bench seat on a military cargo plane.
Knut and his mother are rejoining his dad for a while. I look forward to his report about the thrill of the parachute jump when the plane arrives in Seoul.
Lots of leg and head room. I wouldn’t complain.
Yeah, but I hear that military cargo planes are noisy.
Do they supply the parachutes or is it BYOP?
The plane is a C5. I don’t think civilians like me get a chance to ride in those things.
I don’t like the look of that luggage storage.
Oh, a C5…that’s a nice step up from the C124s and C130s I got to ride in as a kid way, way back in the 1960s. I still have the set of dog tags I had to wear when riding on military transport. Also good to know that the military hasn’t changed that much. Hope they have a great time!
Individual seats? Lighting? AMC is going sofffffft! I remember feeling lucky because the ride back from Elf One that time was a C-141, not a C-130 (although you might not have known from either the noise levels or the interior fittings)… so there was only one refueling-and-crew-change stop. Wouldn’t even be that on a C-5 or C-17.
Civilian research bods get to go on big noisy things from CC to Scott Base (… OK , and McMurdo) in either USAF C-17 (huge) or RNZAF C-130J (smaller). Both noisy, and, until laptops and noise cancelling headphones… very boring!