Thanks for the heads up on the hi-res stuff along the coast, I wouldn't have bothered to look as the area I have an interest in still isn't covered, and I'd assumed that if it took them so long to do Glasgow, Aberdeen etc, then there was no point in looking at smaller places. Ah well, wrong again
No use, I had to go look it up once I'd seen the pics.
They are C-5 Galaxy. Giveaway is the 6 section split of the trailing edge flaps, and lack of an odd raised area above the C-141 cockpit, whch I couldn't identify.
The C-5 fuel load is almost equal to the gross weight of a C-141 Starlifter.
Enough fuel for the average American car to make 130 round trips from Los Angeles to New York, or to make 31 trips around the world.
The C-5 is also known as FRED (Fucking Ridiculous Economic/Environmental Disaster) by its crews.
Seems C-141s are pretty rare now. 20 were listed in service in 2004, and this had fallen to only 8 in 2005. FRED is planned to be guzzling fuel until 2040.