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The Afterburn Podcast

#112 Wade "Prada" Hetrick | The Mighty C-17

The Afterburn Podcast

John "Rain" Waters

Society & Culture, Aviation, Leisure

5961 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Join John "Rain" Waters and guest Wade "Prada" Hetrick on Ep 112 of @AfterburnPodcast. "Prada" is a C-17 Weapons School graduate and instructor who shares his insight and experience flying the C-17, the C-17's performance capabilities, and How the C-17 fits into the operations against a near-peer adversary.

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The jet at high speeds talking above 300 knots you can get a 40 degree per

0:17.8

second roll rate out of this thing which is wild it's like people are like, what's it like flying the C17 and the only thing I can describe it as it's like the NFL

0:29.7

linemen that can

0:35.0

like you look at the the jet and you're like there's no way that it can do the things that you see it do but it can

0:41.2

and also learning the jet can the jet does talk to you but it's

0:47.9

very nebulous you kind of have to know the systems and what they're telling

0:51.6

you at any given time to keep yourself safe when you're kind of trying to push it out toward that outer limit.

0:57.5

So that's the toughest thing as far as specifically flying the jet in general like I said before it's just trying to do everything all the time is incredibly difficult and stay good at everything all the time is a problem for us.

1:15.0

I will pig you back on that.

1:16.2

If you haven't seen the C17 demo for those who are listening,

1:20.1

that's an impressive demo to watch.

1:21.5

I mean, it's a big old plane maneuvering in a small piece of the sky.

1:25.0

The salt landing or the, you know, the short field landing demo portion of it and backing up like, like, I that's a that's a big old plane to be

1:34.8

whipping that thing around like that I love it and I hate it and I'll tell you why. Our entire space is really few runway for the left, 1040, and 5,

1:44.0

with the takeoff.

1:45.0

See tide, Altotero, is clear for takeoff, clear for the airspace.

1:48.0

Fire projector.

1:49.0

I was going to play. My partner,

1:52.8

Kruposa 354.

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