Wednesday afternoon marked a historic event at Camp Roberts as the first C-17 landed on their dirt airfield ... Wednesday’s landing means Camp Roberts now can bring in larger aircraft and ...

It appears that the three crewmembers were the only people onboard the C-17 capable of flying the airplane. Fortunately the long flight ended in a safe landing at the 3,500-foot runway at KTPF ...

Theory No. 1: The landing was all about testing C-17 capabilities for the upcoming Republican National Convention. "That's a new one," Bressendorff responded. "To the best of my knowledge ...

Despite its size, the C-17 can land on runways as short as 3,500 feet or on a dirt landing strip, though it kicks up quite a bit of earth in the process. “It’s quite a spectacular site to see ...

Here’s a preview of what operating a C-17 on a dirt strip looks like ... mentioning that the SPRO exercise took place at the Geronimo landing zone of the Joint Readiness Training Center at ...

Joshua Hammock) KLZ is one of the semi-prepared dirt runways the U.S. has used ... A forklift loads equipment onto a C-17 at Kobani Landing Zone (KLZ), Syria, Oct. 21, 2019.

Fort Stewart plans to expand a taxiway and expand the runway enough to handle C-17 aircraft. Lt. Col. Spisso said the dirt strip landing lets pilots practice on conditions they're likely to find in ...

The landing showed off the C-17’s incredible capabilities by using only about 767 meters of the runway, just about half its total length. St Helena's runway is around 1,535 meters long.