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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 C-17 carries forward the name of two previous piston-engined military cargo aircraft, the Douglas C-74 Globemaster and the Douglas C-124 ...
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C17 (C standard revision), an informal name for ISO/IEC 9899:2018, a revision of the C programming language; C17, a female two-pole IEC 60320 electrical cable connector that mates with a male C18 appliance inlet; Caldwell 17, a dwarf spheroidal galaxy of the Local Group in the constellation Cassiopeia; Carbon-17 (C-17 or 17 C), an isotope of carbon
The RAAF began considering options for heavy transport aircraft to provide a strategic airlift capability during the early 2000s. This investigation was initiated after the ADF deployment to East Timor in 1999 and operations in the Middle East from 2001 revealed shortcomings in the RAAF's ability to transport the increasingly large and heavy vehicles and other items of equipment used by the ...
The Air Force paid over 80 times the going rate for a bathroom soap dispenser, per a new watchdog report.
Number 99 Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Air Force which operates the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III strategic/tactical transport aircraft from RAF Brize Norton.. The squadron conducts global deployments on behalf of the British Armed Forces and the UK Government, notably delivering emergency aid during natural disasters and supporting military operations overseas.
An international incident occurred in 2001 when the government claimed it had discovered 27 bugs embedded in the aircraft's interior. [39] The aircraft had been refitted in San Antonio, Texas. It has since been converted back to a normal passenger airliner and sold. [40] A normal Air China Boeing 767 was occasionally used for travel from thereon.