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Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Global Reach
As the U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III lifted off from Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, early in the morning on Dec. 10, 2010, the mission appeared routine to its crew: airdrop 74,000 pounds of aviation fuel to coalition troops south of Kabul, and then return to base. But this C-17 made history.
The representative flight for the worldwide fleet of Boeing-built C-17s, achieved a remarkable milestone: 2 million flight hours, which equates to 1.13 billion nautical miles, or the equivalent of a C-17 flying to the moon and back 2,360 times.
The mission call sign “Moose 75” was flown by the Air Force’s 190th C-17, delivered in 2009 and assigned to Joint Base Charleston, S.C. It’s one of a global fleet of 226 C-17s that provide air-transport support worldwide.
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