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Big C-17 Transport Plane Lands In Antarctica

A fully loaded U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft from McChord Air Force Base, WA lands, drops off cargo, and then takes-off at Phoenix Airfield in Antarctica. The Army Corps of Engineers ...
The National Interest on MSN

The C-17 Could Stay a “Globemaster” for Another 50 Years

An Air Force general speculated that the C-17 Globemaster III would remain in service until 2075, even after its NGAL successor platform comes online.
Defense One

USAF plan to fly C-5, C-17s even longer elicits concern

The Air Force aims to keep its aging C-5 and C-17 airlifters flying years longer than planned as it awaits a next-gen replacement, officials said in recently released documents. That’s alarming some ...
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Watch how the C-17 pulls off the craziest missions in the US Air Force

A front-row ride in the C-17 Globemaster III during a full week at Joint Base Lewis-McChord with the 313th Airlift Squadron.
Avionics International

USAF To Award Pratt & Whitney Engine Performance Restoration Contract For C-17 By End Of FY 2027

The Air Force plans to award a 10-year firm fixed price contract at the end of fiscal 2027 to RTX‘s Pratt & Whitney for the ...
Post and Courier

Clemson captured footage of a C-17 football stadium flyover from above. Here's how they did it.

CLEMSON — As Lt. Col. Scott Huebel peered through the bug-splattered windshield of a C-17 cargo plane, he was trying to find his target. Memorial Stadium was somewhere in a fast-approaching concrete ...
Wall Street Journal

UPS Plane-Crash Probe Identifies ‘Fatigue Cracks,’ Metal Stress

A UPS cargo plane crashed just after takeoff in Louisville, Ky., in early November. Photo: Stephen Cohen/Getty Images Federal investigators probing the crash of a United Parcel Service cargo jet that ...
NOLA.com

2 presumed dead in New Orleans plane crash over Lake Pontchartrain are flight instructor, student

The search for a small airplane that crashed into Lake Pontchartrain Monday evening continued Tuesday with search crews and the U.S. Coast Guard scouring the waters near New Orleans’ Lakefront Airport ...
CNN

TSA investigating how a meat cleaver made it onto a plane in Portland

The Transportation Security Administration is investigating how someone was able to bring a meat cleaver on a Delta Air Lines plane in Portland, Oregon, Thursday. “TSA is aware that a passenger ...
AZ Central

Small airplane crashes by canal near Falcon Field in Mesa. What we know

Two occupants of a small airplane were able to walk away to safety after it landed on a canal path and collided with a block wall near Falcon Field in Mesa on the morning of Nov. 17. Mesa fire and ...
Reuters

Turkey says black box analysis, initial findings on cargo plane crash to take at least two months

ANKARA, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler said on Monday it would take at least two months to reach initial findings and analyse the black box of a Turkish cargo plane that ...
NOLA.com

4 things to know about New Orleans plane crash: searching the lake, 2 pilots presumed dead

The search to find a small plane that crashed into Lake Pontchartrain after disappearing from airspace near the New Orleans Lakefront Airport earlier this week took a tragic turn Tuesday afternoon ...