3 USAF C-17's at Richmond today..

[Russell D]

Was on my way to church in St Clair yesterday evening about 5.55PM, and I caught sight of a low flying plane (mum spotted it first).

It was a bit dark so I could barely make out the silhouette of the plane, plus I was in the car at the time.

It had bright wingtip lights, and the red rotating beacons above and below the fuselage seem to flash very slowly (kind of like a long exposure time on a camera). It had very bright landing lights too.

Aircraft in question was tracking roughly south-east, and was fairly low. Webtrack doesn't show any such plane in the vicinity at the time. It looked to come from the general RAAF Richmond vicinity.

Therefore I assume it was one of the USAF C-17s?