It was a cloudy and calm afternoon as Major Mike Freyholtz and his crew meticulously prepared to conduct a practice sortie for the upcoming Arctic Thunder Air Show in Joint Base Elmendorf–Richardson, ...

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 ...

Colombia Aerospace Force and U.S. Air Force medical personnel hoist a litter with a simulated aircraft crash patient in a C-17 Globemaster III during a medical evacuation training, August 17 ...

Big airplanes need big engines, and the C-17 Globemaster III is one of the larger aircraft deployed by the U.S. Air Force. While vehicles like the Boeing CH-47 Chinook are often used to get ...

The first C-17 Globemaster III Boeing produced took to the air in September 1991 and the United States Air Force had first dibs, purchasing a total of 223 of them. Boeing delivered the first C-17 ...