This job looks pretty sweet. This massive cargo plane flies just 300 feet over mountain tops and rips through valleys at over 300 knots. Also, people jump out of it. Oh and when it gets low on fuel? It just snags a few hundred thousand pounds from the local flying KC-135 gas station tanker. Then after it lands (in only 3,500 feet) it can back up using thrust reverse. This is a pretty amazing aircraft and this video almost makes it worth it to not see the sun a few months out of the year in Alaska, but hey you can just fly your massive space ship to Hawaii right? To the men and women of Elmo, we salute you.

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