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 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 ...

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 ...

From there, the C-17 jetted to RAAF Base Pearce in Western Australia ... For the past seven-and-a-half hours, a C-17 Globemaster has been tracking south-west en route to Mawson Station.

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 ...