2023年12月15日 · Originally designed for military use, Southwest's new C-17 aircraft comes equipped with an 18-foot by 88-foot cargo area decked out with full-length floor rollers, reinforced titanium tiedown anchors, and a full-width hydraulic cargo door.

2022年10月5日 · U.S. Airmen from the 21st Airlift Squadron stationed at Travis Air Force Base, California, led Exercise Golden Bee, the first C-17 Globemaster III unit-level tactical training exercise in the U.S. Indo-Pacific area of responsibility, Sept. 24-27.

The McDonnell Douglas / Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft developed for the United States Air Force (USAF) between the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas.

The Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing is an American biplane with an atypical negative wing stagger (the lower wing is farther forward than the upper wing). It first flew in 1932, and was sold on the civilian market, being used for transport and air racing.

2019年3月29日 · BeeLiner C-17 Globemaster III from 21st Airlift Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, practices landing and takeoffs at Fort Hunter Liggett, California's Schoonover Airfield dirt runway, week of Marcy...

2001年7月1日 · Systems engineering (SE) is applied to the customer-required Producibility Enhancement / Performance Improvement (PE/PI) and to Boeing-initiated projects, such as Must Cost projects to im-prove...

2025年4月1日 · The C-17 is used for tactical and strategic airlift, troop and cargo transport, and evacuation and airdrop missions. As outlined in the original contract, the services include program management; sustaining logistics; material and equipment management; sustaining engineering; quality assurance; depot level aircraft maintenance and modifications; F117 propulsion system management; long-term ...

5 天之前 · The Boeing Company BA recently secured a modification contract to support the sustainment of C-17 Globemaster III jets. The award has been provided by the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center ...

Produced during the depths of the Great Depression, this expensive aircraft was designed as a high-speed, comfortable business airplane. The gamble was successful with 781 Beech 17s produced in eight different series.

Five-place executive biplane with distinctive negative "staggered" wings. Jacobs L-4MB radial engine. Staggerwings were also used as a racing and World War II military transport aircraft.