T-tail designs were common in early jet aircraft, but the C-17 Globemaster's T-tail design adds to its stability. Its ...

Pilots with the 167th Airlift Wing conduct a touch-and-go landing in a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Shepherd Field Air ...

The C-17’s mismatched under-fuselage sponsons put it in an exotic category of asymmetric fixed-wing aircraft designs.

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 U.S. Air Force has made significant progress, with the Operational Energy and Air Mobility Command now entering the final evaluation phase for an innovative technology: Microvane drag reduction ...

A Boeing C-17 at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, in August. Credit: U.S. Air Force An anonymous tip about an expensive soap dispenser for the lavatory on a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III has led to ...

On Apr. 10, 2025, a C-17 from Joint Base Lewis-McChord became the first in the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command to take fuel from a commercially contracted KDC-10B. Omega Air Refueling, based in ...

Boeing overcharged the Air Force for simple spare parts on C-17 aircraft by $1 million over a four-year period, according to the Pentagon. The defense giant marked up the cost of soap dispensers by ...

WASHINGTON — Boeing overcharged the Air Force nearly $1 million for spare parts on C-17 cargo planes, including an 8,000% markup for simple lavatory soap dispensers, according to the Pentagon’s ...