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 ...

A surprisingly simple tweak is making a venerable military transport aircraft more efficient. Literally gluing a few microvanes to the rear fuselage of a C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane can result in ...

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 ...

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 ...

C-17 Globemaster: The United States is the largest customer and operator of the American-made Boeing C-17 Globemaster, with 223 aircraft in the current US Air Force fleet based in 12 military bases.

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 ...

The C-17 Globemaster is designed for strategic military transport with greater stability for heavy oversized cargo. The T-tail design provides advantages like consistent elevator response ...

From there, the C-17 jetted to RAAF Base Pearce in Western Australia ... For the past seven-and-a-half hours, a C-17 ...

File photo of Customs and Border Protection security agents guiding detained migrants to board a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft for a removal flight at Fort Bliss, Texas in January 2025.