Under his leadership AirLaunch achieved several technical milestones including the largest and heaviest object ever dropped from a C-17 and the largest and longest Vapor Pressurized rocket engine firings in history.
Upon her graduation, she was assigned to the C-17 Combined Test Force, where she served as a test pilot until her selection for the astronaut program.
On August 10–11, 2008, 16 C-17 Globemasters shuttled around 2,000 Georgian soldiers and supplies back to Georgia, drawing a sharp protest from Russia.
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The XC-108A was used to fly material and personnel over the Himalayas to the B-29 base in Chengdu, China.
Just-in-Time Strike Augmentation (JITSA) is a United States Air Force program proposal for network-centric operations to command the battlefield from the air using the C-17 Globemaster III to launch large numbers of PMTD into the battlespace.
Boeing C-108 Flying Fortress, the designation of four United States B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber
Boeing C-127, a designation for a proposed, large, turboshaft -driven transport aircraft to have been built in the early 1950s by the United States