Yeppers that's a C17 Globe master III Even though this is an oops video, this is what she was designed for. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuqsd_tRHw
The video that plays after shows her taking off with no problem.
Yep Retired Military can catch a channel flight using "space A" (space available)

What made the experience all the more fun was the way the airmen demonstrated the features like rollers, folding seats and tie downs to the visitors. They tried to add a little humor to their explanations, but the crew keeping the visitors from climbing the ladder to the flight deck were pretty serious.

Hey! Big plane, short runway. I would have liked to have seen the plane up close as it rolled to a stop, just to see how much flap they put out.

I used to work as a civilian on a military installation that had these fly in pretty frequently. They are BIG, I will say that!

They kind of make me think they're like the C-130's younger "Cousin." Lots of features in both aircraft are similar. Still, I was just fascinated by the details as this aircraft still had it's ECMs in place, and the ports above the landing gear bulges open. I came away from the display secretly wishing they'd make a 1/32nd scale plastic model of the C-17.

I worked in maintenance on those for a number of years, though I never flew on one.

They are an amazing piece of aviation hardware.

Saaayyy... You wouldn't happen to know what the ports on the uppar pat of the main landing gear bulges are for? Upon landing do those big planes bottom out so bad that they need a little extra room for the struts to poke up through?

I wonder if it can "kneel" down for loading and unloading cargo?

EURIKA! Yes! It was on display in a "Loading-Unloading" configuration, so those landing gear were most likely at their lowest point.

The main gear rotate and retract up into that bulge when the doors close over them.
Since it is a "low" cargo deck aircraft, the gear are a lot further outboard than you would see on a typical civilian design jet.

Regarding loading configuration, there isn't much kneeling going on, unless the maintenance crew is doing a wheel/tire change.
The plane does have accommodation for heavy loads being loaded, but that is done by way of hydraulic landing legs that can extend to stabilize the rear of the plane even further, preventing it squatting or tilting while being loaded.
Having the plane shift while a pallet is in transition from the loader and onto the ramp (which wouldn't be a ramp at that point, it would be horizontal) would be a less than fun experience, especially if it rocked slightly sideways and got cocked in the guide tracks.

Woah! Thanks for the explanations. Yeah. The airmen in the C 17 on display gave a demonstration on how the deck rollers worked, and I can see now how the pallets getting Jammed on them could be trouble. (Especially during LAPES. -Uh- Do they do that sort of thing with the C 17?) Anyway, I'm just a model builder, so I keep my eyes open for unusual details. Those opened ports with the tops of the struts sticking out, and weight "Loaded" tires on the landing gear might just catch an IPMS Judge's eye one day during a contest.

Thought you might get a giggle out of this. Talk about kit-bashing! Pity it's not airworthy.
http://www.315aw.afrc.af.mil/About-.....17-fact-sheet/

I'm gonna have to bookmark that page! I wonder what scale that works out to, but I'm guessing 1:6 or at least 1:12, "G I Joe" scale. That's cool! Over the years I've seen model builders crazy enough to build 1/32nd scale B-52s and working scale UP "Big Boy" steam locomotives, and even the Goodyear blimp. Thanks for linking me to that page.

Well, a C-17 is 170' wingspan, and that one's 28'6", so it's right at 1:6, but if you go by length it's #

Ah! "Box Scale." So a scale, six foot tall crewman would be 12 inches high. Neat!