Ramstein Airbase

[housil]

I spent a day at Ramstein Airbase Germany, the biggest military airport all over Europa with 47.000 troops over there.

After an 6 hrs coach ride, we arrived at


4 * Generell Welsh house


and his "Office"


Me in front of a C-17 Globemaster III "Mississippi"


Inside the C-17


Next time you "complain" about economy, be happy you don´t have to sit all the time on this


Lunch at


Inside the "German House"

[biscuits brown]

Great pics

[LogDayFreshHots]

Great pics, Housil

Thanks

[Treesuit]

Those look like some really nice accomadations.

[Yowie]

Great pics Housil

47000, makes Amberley (Australia's 'super base') just up the road seems like a country town aerodrome. At we get to see alot of flyovers on the beach C-17's, Super Hornets, Helo's. great for a plane nerd like me.

[rationtin440]

Awesome pics housil! Just curious if you have ever heard of an alleged "super-hardened" NATO airbase in europe that featured underground hangars and an elevator system which lifted planes to the surface for take-off? A buddy of mine recently related a story about such a base in the eastern part of the former West Germany, (he could not get specific) and that the base had been de-commissioned. Actually it turns out he was a civilian engineer and did alot of stuff during the early 1980s that he cannot discuss in detail.

[rationtin440]

Yowie, if you really are a plane nerd and ever wanna discuss planes with someone who loves them: Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden! About 6 years ago a mutual friend introduced me to him and boy does he love to talk planes! Amazing person, super smart, and just about the most kind-hearted you'll ever meet, and once you get him on the subject of planes, look out! We must have spent an hour or more talking planes from the Flight 666 tour plane to the F-104 that crashed in the Quabbin Reservoir in the early 1960s.

[Yowie]

Wow, you guys sound like you know a lot more than me. My best story is of our f111'sdoing low level training near my fathers farm when I was growing up. Have some photo's of the last amberley airshow. Will post some later

[rationtin440]

Sorry Yowie, my wife just informed me that it was just about 3 years ago that I met Bruce Dickinson----God I hate getting old!!

[Yowie]

I can live with three years sounds like a really interesting guy to talk too.
I miss the days when Australia was not so PC that the F-111's were still allowed to break the sound barrier anywhere near civilization. certainly made for the odd scary horse ride when I was a kid