A surprisingly simple tweak is making a venerable military transport aircraft more efficient. Literally gluing a few microvanes to the rear fuselage of a C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane can result in ...

Services: U.S. Air Force Propulsion ... one loadmaster) Load: 102 troops/paratroops; 36 litter and 54 ambulatory patients and attendants; 170,900 pounds (77,519 kilograms) of cargo (18 pallet ...

You can load 172,000 ... palletized cargo. We can take people. Narrator: That's C-17 crew chief Staff Sgt. Joshua Estell. He helps oversee the 13 C-17s stationed at Travis Air Force Base.

The cross-border e-commerce logistics ecosystem, including cargo airlines, is bracing for a downturn in business after the ...

cargo loading, and landing data management. These three aircraft share both similarities and differences. It was less than a year ago that the Air Force confirmed a Lot 10 contract with Boeing for ...

A striking image shows hundreds of people crammed inside a US Air Force cargo plane as they flee Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. The photo was obtained by Defense One. A defense official ...