Recent conflicts have renewed attention on the type and as the defence budgets are increasing, countries are looking to ...

The C-17's production run was shaped by cost pressures, shifting military doctrine, and changing geopolitical realities.

Boeing has disclosed details of its US Air Force contract to provide a modernised flight deck for the C-17 strategic ...

U.S. Air Force and international partners are looking to extend the service life of the transport aircraft.

The scope of the contract includes design, production, integration, qualification and military certification of a modernised flight deck for the C-17A.

Commercialjet airliners are designed rather similarly to one another. A circular or semi-circular tube, with a main deck for passenger seating, a lower deck for cargo, and a low wing mounted near the ...

American aircraft maker Boeing was tasked by the USAF to design and implement a new flight deck for the C-17 Globemaster III.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) initiated a program in December 1979, known as the Cargo-Experimental (C-X) competition, as a means of finding a new strategic airlift aircraft that was ...

The C-17 Globemaster's unique design allows it to fly at altitudes and speeds that would cause other jets of its size to drop out of the sky.

C-17 Globemaster III transports lifted off from March Air Reserve Base this weekend carrying something no Globemaster had ...

Boeing has delivered the first of six C-17 Globemaster III airlifters to the UAE Air Force and Air Defence during a ceremony at the company's final assembly facility in Long Beach earlier today UAE ...

The U.S. Air Force has picked Boeing to update the flight deck of the company’s C-17 Globemaster III as the service expects to keep the airlifter flying for decades to come.