The Globemaster III was designed to be able to land on runways as short as 3,500 feet and as narrow as 90 feet. With engine thrust reversers, the C-17 can back up and turn around on very small ...
The first C-17 Globemaster III Boeing produced took to the air in September 1991 and the United States Air Force had first dibs, purchasing a total of 223 of them. Boeing delivered the first C-17 ...
Following is a transcript of the video. -Narrator: The C-17 Globemaster III is capable of airdropping 102 paratroopers and transporting massive cargo anywhere in the world. Armed with cutting-edge ...
Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: These Air Force pilots are refueling their C-17 Globemaster III at 26,000 feet in the air. Narrator: The pilots rendezvous with a KC-10 refueler ...
An airpower milestone was reached last week when the first ever US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III completed an airdrop mission that delivered about 70,000 pounds of supplies to the South Pole.
The number was a record for the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III - the four-engined transport plane that has been at the centre of the airlift from Hamid Karzai International Airport. Developed in the ...
The C-17 Globemaster III is a military cargo jet that can carry what their commercial counterparts can’t, to places those other planes can’t go. The people who keep these planes flying are ...
The C-17 Globemaster is a Boeing-built military airlifter that first flew on September 15, 1991. Two hundred seventy-nine aircraft were built between 1991 and 2015, with the overwhelming majority ...