How The C‑17 Globemaster Stacks Up Against Modern Cargo Aircraft In 2025

The C-17 is the most popular Western strategic airlifter, and it boasts many advantages over freighter aircraft.
The Providence Journal

Kawak Aviation Technologies Inc. Advances Cargo Door Systems for Growing Freighter Conversion Market

Kawak Aviation Technologies Inc., a Bend, Oregon-based aviation engineering and manufacturing company, is expanding its hydraulic system capabilities to meet rising demand for freighter conversions as ...
The Aviationist

The Flexible C-17 Globemaster III has Impressive STOL Capabilities

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 ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sen. Inouye gives Boeing hope for C-17 Appropriations chairman's sway over billions in military contracts attracts swarm of lobbyists.

Inouye, D-Hawaii, was answering a fellow senator's question about the future of Boeing's mammoth C-17 cargo plane. The answer is important to St. Louis: Though the C-17 is assembled at a plant in Long ...