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Star Wars Canyon, also known as the Jedi Transition or Rainbow Canyon, and the
aviation photographers that trek there, have offered up some of the most
stunning and interesting images and footage of military aircraft over the last
half-decade. The variety of aircraft that blast through the chasm is one of the
locale's biggest attractions. Like fishing in some bizarre intercoastal waterway
you truly never know what you might catch. In the case of pro photog Eric
Larson, he recently caught a whale with one hell of an attitude.
Fighter jets are the normal fare for Star Wars Canyon, but it also gets its
share of propeller-driven aircraft and helicopters. It even gets larger aircraft
like bombers and transports, but they always seem to take a far less aggressive
and higher route towards the valley below.
This wasn't the case for a C-17A Globemaster III from Edwards AFB that took to
the canyon in a manner unlike seemingly any other 'heavy' caught on camera in
the canyon before.
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