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

German investigators have determined that a complex interaction of hydraulic, mechanical and icing problems resulted in a DHL Air Boeing 757-200 freighter's cargo door opening as it climbed out of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...