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L'ultimo assemblaggio .....
"The Last Join" ..... http://www.boeing.com/features/2015/03/ ... 04-15.page
"The Last Join" ..... http://www.boeing.com/features/2015/03/ ... 04-15.page
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Qualche ipotesi sulla possibile sorte dell'ultimo rimasto .....
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Fonte ..... "Qatar To Procure Four C-17s" ..... http://www.defensenews.com/story/defens ... /28811491/..... Canada has claimed one while Australia has claimed two.
There is an unnamed Middle Eastern customer, speculated to be Kuwait, which has also procured two. Combined with the four sales to Qatar, that means only one C-17 is left.
Just where that one will go remains unknown, but there has been reported interest from India, which has so far received seven of its 10 ordered planes.
The UK also reportedly has shown interest in adding to its fleet in the past.
New Zealand, which is seeking to replace its aging Hercules transport fleet, has been suggested as an option, but the fact that only one C-17 remains makes such a move unlikely.
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Il settimo è arrivato in Australia .....
"Australia receives seventh C-17" .....
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... 17-415144/
"Minister for Defence – Fastest C-17A delivery in Australian history" .....
http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/2015 ... n-history/
"Australia receives seventh C-17" .....
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... 17-415144/
"Minister for Defence – Fastest C-17A delivery in Australian history" .....
http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/2015 ... n-history/
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Mi piace da morire, quello lo vorrei proprio pilotare!
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Quando sarai grande se ancora ti interesserà se ne riparlerà.
Adesso lascia in pace il gatto e finisci di rimettere in ordine la tua stanza,
se no il budino che ha fatto mamma dopo cena te lo puoi anche scordare.
Adesso lascia in pace il gatto e finisci di rimettere in ordine la tua stanza,
se no il budino che ha fatto mamma dopo cena te lo puoi anche scordare.
"The curve is flattening: we can start lifting restrictions now" = "The parachute has slowed our rate of descent: we can take it off now!"
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Ti piacerebbe provare una discesa ripida con i 4 motori in reverse eh?Lampo 13 ha scritto:Mi piace da morire, quello lo vorrei proprio pilotare!
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Quello è quasi un caccia!
Mamma Ricciardi, me lo compri?
Mamma Ricciardi, me lo compri?
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Aspetta e ..... spera .....Lampo 13 ha scritto:Quello è quasi un caccia!
Mamma Ricciardi, me lo compri?
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L' India vorrebbe ora acquistare altri tre C-17A ..... ma ha aspettato troppo tempo per prendere una decisione in merito ..... e Boeing ne ha ormai disponibile soltanto uno .....
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Fonte ..... il 'Daily Report' dell' AFA .....India Eyes the Last Globemaster Slice .....
Arie Church (08/21/2015)
The Indian Air Force is seeking to purchase Boeing's last unspoken for C-17 Globemaster III after Qatar sealed a deal to snap-up four of the remaining five aircraft back in June, India's Economic Times reported .....
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/new ... 506624.cms
India ordered a total of 10 C-17s back in 2011, and has used the aircraft heavily enough, especially in humanitarian relief operations, that the IAF would ideally like up to three additional airframes, according to the report.
Since Boeing is shuttering its assembly line at Long Beach, Calif., any additional airframes for the IAF would depend on current customers, such as Australia or Qatar, canceling or curtailing their order, or a current operator selling aircraft second-hand.
India initially envisioned acquiring a fleet of up to 18 Globemasters in tandem with its newly built Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules.
The Qatar deal, announced at the Paris Air Show back in June, doubles the country's C-17 fleet to eight aircraft ..... http://boeing.mediaroom.com/2015-06-15- ... Four-C-17s
The Royal Australian Air Force plans to receive its eighth and final C-17 later this year, according to an Australian Department of Defense release ..... http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/2015 ... n-history/
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Consegnato all' Australia il suo ultimo C-17 ..... un solo esemplare resta tuttora invenduto .....
Links .....
(1) ..... http://www.airforce.gov.au/News/Ministe ... zWEDcy20Yf
(2) ..... http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/mal-biography/
(3) ..... vedasi post precedente .....
(4) ..... http://www.airforce.gov.au/Alenia-C-27J ... nuL3bxuN6b
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Fonte ..... il 'Daily Report' dell' AFA .....Last Aussie Globemaster Delivered .....
Arie Church (11/9/2015)
Boeing delivered the Royal Australian Air Force's eighth and final C-17 Globemaster III to the fleet's base at RAAF Amberley, near Brisbane, Nov. 4, the Defense Ministry announced. (1)
Australia's C-17s have been heavily engaged "supporting the international effort to combat Daesh in Iraq and Syria," as well as providing humanitarian and disaster relief, defense materiel minister Mal Brough said in the release. (2)
Australia originally purchased six C-17s, and snapped up its seventh and eighth aircraft from Boeing's final, non-contracted production stock earlier this year.
India expressed interest in the last unsold C-17 after Qatar claimed one of the two still available after Boeing shuttered the production line at Palm Beach, Calif. (3)
The RAAF also operates the C-130J Super Hercules in the tactical airlift role, and is acquiring 10 C-27J Spartans for mid-range and short-field operations, according to the RAAF. (4)
Links .....
(1) ..... http://www.airforce.gov.au/News/Ministe ... zWEDcy20Yf
(2) ..... http://www.minister.defence.gov.au/mal-biography/
(3) ..... vedasi post precedente .....
(4) ..... http://www.airforce.gov.au/Alenia-C-27J ... nuL3bxuN6b
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Il nostro PdC è già stato informato???? Facciamo l'affare????richelieu ha scritto:Consegnato all'Australia il suo ultimo C-17 ..... un solo esemplare resta tuttora invenduto .....
Spiridione.
Ho volato su un MD80 così vecchio, che sulla porta di una toilette c'era scritto ORVILLE
e sulla porta dell'altra WILBUR....
Ho volato su un MD80 così vecchio, che sulla porta di una toilette c'era scritto ORVILLE
e sulla porta dell'altra WILBUR....
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Beh ..... visto che il '340' già ce l' ha ad uso personale e per il trasporto del codazzo ..... il 'Globemaster III' potrebbe, in effetti, venirgli utile per la movimentazione dei relativi bagagli .....spiridione ha scritto:Il nostro PdC è già stato informato????richelieu ha scritto:Consegnato all'Australia il suo ultimo C-17 ..... un solo esemplare resta tuttora invenduto .....
Facciamo l'affare????
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Prima missione in Antartico per un C-17A della RAAF .....
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Fonte ..... il 'Daily Report' dell' AFA .....Dipping a Toe into Antarctic Airspace .....
Arie Church (11/30/2015)
The Royal Australian Air Force recently flew a C-17 Globemaster III on an experimental resupply flight to Antarctica for the first time, RAAF officials announced.
"Whilst this is a first for the Royal Australian Air Force, other countries, including the United States, regularly use military assets to assist with Antarctic logistics and I am confident Australia can do the same," Australia's environment minister Greg Hunt (1) said in a RAAF release (2).
The RAAF conducted its first Antarctic C-17 mission from Hobart, Tasmania, to Wilkins Aerodrome, near the Australian Antarctic program's base.
Air Force C-17s have supported the United States' National Science Foundation research at McMurdo Station for several years, and most recently began year-round operations using night vision goggles (3).
The Australian government will review the results of the mission to determine whether to normalize C-17 Antarctic resupply.
(1) ..... http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/hunt/index.html
(2) ..... http://www.airforce.gov.au/News/Flying- ... n3p3/41J1Z
(3) ..... http://www.airforcemag.com/DRArchive/Pa ... ights.aspx
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E' finita .....
http://boeing.mediaroom.com/2015-11-29- ... y-Facility
Flightglobal ..... "Era closes as last Boeing C-17 departs Long Beach" .....
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ch-419542/
Filmato .....
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Fonte ..... "Final Boeing C-17 Globemaster III Departs Long Beach Assembly Facility" .....The final Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military airlifter at the company’s plant in Long Beach, Calif. departed on Sunday, Nov. 29, marking the official end of aircraft production in Long Beach.
The airlifter flew over a crowd and the facility before heading to the company’s San Antonio location, where it will remain until delivery to the Qatar Emiri Air Force early in 2016.
http://boeing.mediaroom.com/2015-11-29- ... y-Facility
Flightglobal ..... "Era closes as last Boeing C-17 departs Long Beach" .....
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ch-419542/
Filmato .....
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C-17, Qatar e .....
"I C-17 del Qatar, le coperture di Ankara, l’«agente di viaggio» della Cia e le armi destinate ai ribelli in Siria"
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/commenti ... d=ACjJNikB
"I C-17 del Qatar, le coperture di Ankara, l’«agente di viaggio» della Cia e le armi destinate ai ribelli in Siria"
http://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/commenti ... d=ACjJNikB
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Il 'Globemaster III' e la difesa anti-missile .....
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Fonte ..... il 'Daily Report' dell' AFA .....Ballistic Globemasters .....
Arie Church (12/9/2015)
An Air Force Test Center C-17 launches an Extended Medium-Range Ballistic Missile into a debris field created by a THAAD weapon system, which intercepted and destroyed a Short-Range Air-Launch Target near Wake Island in the Pacific on Oct. 31, 2015.
Missile Defense Agency photo.
Two C-17s drop-launched a pair of ballistic target missiles near Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean, supporting a recent Missile Defense Agency test.
"High-altitude, heavy weight airdrop is something we're doing a lot of here at Edwards, supporting not only MDA, but NASA with the Orion capsule drops that we've been doing," 418th Flight Test Squadron pilot Capt. Stephen Koether from Edwards AFB, Calif., said in a Dec. 7 release .....
http://www.edwards.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123464809
Edwards pilots initially deployed a Short-Range Air-Launch Target (SRALT) from the C-17's cargo bay, which was detected, tracked, and intercepted by a ground-launched Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile.
The second Globemaster launched a larger Extended Medium-Range Ballistic Missile (EMRBM) minutes later, testing defensive systems' ability to discriminate targets through debris from the first shot.
The THAAD system on Wake successfully intercepted the first shot, and although the AEGIS destroyer USS John Paul Jones was able to track the EMRBM, its SM-3 missile failed to engage, according to an MDA release .....
http://www.mda.mil/news/15news0008.html
The Oct. 31 test evaluated both land- and sea-based US missile defense.
MDA is investigating the missile interceptor failure.
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E P&W chiuse il rubinetto .....
FlightGlobal.com ..... "P&W delivers last C-17-powering F117 to US air force" .....
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ce-420762/
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Fonte ..... il 'Daily Report' dell' AFA .....Pratt to Deliver Final C-17 Engine .....
Brian Everstine (1/13/2016)
Pratt & Whitney on Jan. 12 marked the end of production of the F117 engine, which powers the C-17 Globemaster III, with a ceremony preceding delivery of the final power plant to the Air Force this month.
The engine is the last of 1,313 the company has produced for USAF and through foreign military sales since the C-17 entered service in 1993.
“There is a great sense of fulfillment and, yes too, a sense of sadness,” said Bennett Croswell, president of Pratt’s military engines division, in a Jan. 12 ceremony at a company facility in Middletown, Conn.
“Because it really is bittersweet to be handing over the final F117 engine today. … This is as successful and important a program as we’ve ever had here at military engines from both a production and a sustainment perspective,” Croswell said.
Brig. Gen Stacey Hawkins, director of logistics, engineering, and force protection for Air Mobility Command,
http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/D ... wkins.aspx
said the engine has been vital to the rapid global mobility mission handled by the C-17, which he called “a workhorse of global mobility.”
Since the aircraft first flew for the service, it has totaled 2.3 billion flight hours, setting 33 airlift records.
“This engine is vital to our national security by defeating and deterring our enemies and by saving the lives of those who have been persecuted or in need of help,” Hawkins said at the ceremony.
See also Pratt & Whitney release ..... http://www.pw.utc.com/Press/Story/20160 ... Categories
FlightGlobal.com ..... "P&W delivers last C-17-powering F117 to US air force" .....
https://www.flightglobal.com/news/artic ... ce-420762/
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Il (lungo) futuro del Globemaster III ..... ne parla il generale Everhart nel Daily Report dell'AFA .....
.Long Live the C-17 ..... John A. Tirpak (9/21/2016)
Though Air Mobility Command is already looking ahead to a stealthy penetrating tanker in the 2035 timeframe, a new airlifter to replace the C-17 will be longer in coming, AMC chief Gen. Carlton Everhart told reporters at ASC16.
The C-17, he said, has a lot of life left in it, though fleet improvements will likely come in the form of a new head-up display, a new oxygen generating system and putting extended range fuel tanks on those C-17s that don’t already have them.
Everhart said the C-17 “drinks a lot of gas” and may benefit from a re-engining at some point, and he expects there will be a service life extension program, but it will probably be done incrementally when the jets come in for depot maintenance.
Applying “fleet dynamics” - swapping aircraft out of high-corrosion environments like the Pacific and making sure the fleet ages evenly by tail number - will buy as much as ten years of service life, Everhart said.
The C-17 could be a “60-80-year airplane,” Everhart said.
Asked about when a “C-X” might be in the offing, he suggested that something smaller and stealthy might come sooner.
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Alla ricerca di migliorie aerodinamiche .....
Final phase of C-17 drag reduction testing underway .....
Six microvanes are bonded to each side of the aft fuselage of a test C-17 Globemaster III for phases three, four and five in the C-17 Drag Reduction Program managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and tested by the 418th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
The C-17 Globemaster III used for all five test phases is provided by Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
(U.S. Air Force photo/Kenji Thuloweit)
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Fonte ..... "C-17 Drag Testing Nearing Completion" .....Soon to be completed drag reduction testing on the C-17 transport aircraft could lead to design changes that would save the Air Force as much as 7.1 million gallons of fuel and up to $48 million per year.
The 418th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards AFB, Calif., is nearing the end of its year-long project to reduce drag and increase the fuel efficiency of the C-17, according to a release.
Final phase of C-17 drag reduction testing underway .....
Six microvanes are bonded to each side of the aft fuselage of a test C-17 Globemaster III for phases three, four and five in the C-17 Drag Reduction Program managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and tested by the 418th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.
The C-17 Globemaster III used for all five test phases is provided by Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
(U.S. Air Force photo/Kenji Thuloweit)
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Un carico molto particolare .....
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Fonte: Air Mobility Command ..... Mobility Airmen transport dolphins to San Diego NMMP .....Airmen from the 301st Airlift Squadron transported four Bottlenose Dolphins and their handlers from Naval Air Station Key West, Florida, to the U.S. Naval Marine Mammal Program, San Diego April 29, 2017.
The dolphins were moved to NAS Key West in March where they spent the last month before returning to San Diego.
“The dolphins need to be challenged and get experience in different waters,” said Brit Swenberg, an NMMP biological technician.
“It also gets them used to traveling and working out of deployable vehicles.”
NMMP trains dolphins and sea lions to assist the Navy with locating mines and enemy swimmers.
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Un Globemaster III tutto ..... rosa .....
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Fonte: dailyrepublic.com ..... "All-woman Travis aircrew crosses Pacific" .....Maybe Lt. Col. Erik Fisher said it best in an open letter to his young daughter, Ella.
The 21st Airlift Squadron commander was explaining why his squadron put together an all-woman crew to fly a mission across the Pacific to Australia earlier this month to honor Women’s History Month.
“We did this to honor our past and recognize the service of women today,” Fisher wrote.
“We also did it for you. We did it for the other 7-year-old girls in your first-grade class and all the young girls who will lead our country in the future.”
It is a sentiment that the seven women who flew the C-17 jet transport would agree with.
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Chi acquisterà le officine dove Boeing ha prodotto, per anni, i C-17 ?
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Fonte: thedrive.com ..... "Boeing Is Selling Off Its Historic C-17 Production Line Facility In Long Beach" .....Boeing is looking to sell the facilities in Long Beach, California where it built the C-17A Globemaster III cargo aircraft.
This will bring a more definitive end to the company’s serial production of military aircraft in Southern California and makes it even less likely that it would restart production of the airlifters in response to emerging U.S. Air Force demands.
At the same time, that space could be very attractive to up-and-coming space launch firms, such as Virgin Orbit or SpaceX, who might be looking to expand their operations and there have also been proposals for a more dramatic overhaul of the area.
The Chicago-headquartered plane maker put the property on the market with the help of real estate brokerage NKF Capital Markets on Nov. 5, 2018.
The nearly four million square foot plot of land adjacent to Long Beach Airport includes the 1.1 million square foot main assembly building where workers built just shy of 280 C-17s for the U.S. Air Force and more than a half dozen foreign customers.
So far, there is no public asking price for the property.
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L' India ha ricevuto il suo 11° ed ultimo esemplare ...
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... defpost.com ... https://defpost.com/boeing-delivers-11t ... air-force/ ...
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Al gelo intenso dell'Antartico ...
... airforcemag.com ... C-17s Begin Deep Freeze Flights in Antarctica ...Winter flying season in Antarctica is underway, as C-17s and Airmen deployed for Operation Deep Freeze begin flying in crucial personnel and equipment.
The C-17s, deployed from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., have flown three missions in recent weeks, transporting 151 personnel and 165,000 pounds of cargo to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, according to a Pacific Air Forces release.
Airmen quarantined for two weeks before flying in to keep Antarctica the last continent on the globe free of COVID-19.
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Quattro milioni di ore di volo ... un traguardo ragguardevole ...
E qui … ang.af.mil … C-17 fleet hits milestone; reaches 4 million flight hours … c'è l'articolo originale ... con tanto di "patch" commemorativo ...
… aviation-report.com … La flotta dei C-17 Globemaster raggiunge 4 milioni di ore di volo …Dopo quasi 30 anni di volo e migliaia di missioni di combattimento e umanitarie in tutto il mondo la flotta dei velivoli da trasporto C-17 Globemaster III ha raggiunto quattro milioni di ore di volo il 15 gennaio 2021 durante una missione del 437th Airlift Wing della base aerea di Charleston con un equipaggio composto da un equipaggio formato da personale in servizio attivo, della guardia nazionale e della riserva.
E qui … ang.af.mil … C-17 fleet hits milestone; reaches 4 million flight hours … c'è l'articolo originale ... con tanto di "patch" commemorativo ...
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Grosso contratto assegnato a Boeing ...
Dalla pagina "Contracts" del DoD del 27 Settembre 2021 ... alla voce "AIR FORCE" ...
Dalla pagina "Contracts" del DoD del 27 Settembre 2021 ... alla voce "AIR FORCE" ...
Anche qui … govconwire.com … Boeing Secures Nearly $24B Contract to Help Maintain Air Force C-17 Fleet …The Boeing Co., Long Beach, California, has been awarded a $3,464,266,341 firm-fixed-price, fixed-price incentive (firm target), cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost reimbursement-no fee and time-and-material, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the C-17 Globemaster III Sustainment Program.
The period of performance is nine years and eight months, consisting of three 12-month ordering periods, two 37-month options, and the six-month option to extend services, for a total maximum value of $23,764,751,000.
This contract will provide support and sustainment services to the government product support manager/product support integrator for the C-17 weapon system.
Support includes, but is not limited to: program management; sustaining logistics; material and equipment management; sustaining engineering; quality assurance; depot level aircraft maintenance and modifications; F117 propulsion system management; long-term sustainment planning; field services, unique foreign military customer services and Air Logistics Center partnering support for the worldwide fleet of the C-17 aircraft.
Work will be performed in multiple domestic and international locations and is expected to be completed by May 30, 2031, if all options are exercised.
The contract involves Foreign Military Sales (FMS) to the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, NATO Airlift Management Program Office, India, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
This award is the result of a sole source acquisition.
No-year FMS funds in the amount of $5,000,000 are being obligated at the time of award.
There is known congressional interest pertaining to this acquisition.
Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, is the contracting activity (FA8526-21-D-0001).