There's no denying that the C-17 Globemaster III is a large plane. It has a diameter of 22.5 feet, is 174-feet long, and has a wingspan of 169.8-feet from winglet tip to winglet tip with an area ...

Powered by four F117-PW-100 turbofan engines designed by Pratt & Whitney, the C-17 Globemaster III doesn't just hold a max take off weight of over 290 tons, but it also boasts a whopping 40,440 ...

A U.S. Army M1A2 SEPv2 Abrams Tank is loaded onto the cargo ramp of a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III during a training event at Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, January 19, 2022.

The C-17 Globemaster is a military beast of burden. ... It can carry around 170,900 lbs (77,000 kg) of cargo. This translates into about 100 troops and their equipment. ... The C-17 can take off and ...

Call it the KC-17. On Dec. 2, a C-17 Globemaster III refueled a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber on the ground for the first time — the latest test of the cargo jet’s versatility.

BA secures a $2.46 billion modification contract to support the sustainment of C-17 Globemaster III jets. ... the C-5 can haul twice as much cargo as any other airlifter.

The British Royal Air Force managed to land a massive Boeing C-17A Globemaster III on Saint Helena.

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 ...

There's no denying that the C-17 Globemaster III is a large plane. It has a diameter of 22.5 feet, is 174-feet long, and has a wingspan of 169.8-feet from winglet tip to winglet tip with an area ...

Despite its maintainability, it wasn't enough for Boeing to continue the production of the C-17 Globemaster III. Similar to the reason the 747 was axed, Boeing announced its plans to stop ...