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Maintainers from the 7th Bomb Wing, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas and the 28th Bomb Wing, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, prepare to launch a B-1B Lancer for a Weapons School Integration (WSINT) mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, May 25, 2022. B-1s and maintainers from both bases provided support to WSINT 22-A. (U.S. Air Force photo by William R. Lewis)
Caught up in plans to revamp the aging fleet of airplanes it uses, the U.S. Air Force still has to rely on decades-old machines to conduct its business. One of these machines is the four decades-old F-15C Eagle.
There are plenty of massive military airplanes out there that have us wondering how such incredible beasts can take to the skies, but few of them are as impressive as the C-17 Globemaster III, a mammoth of a workhorse that has been around in one form or another ever since the 1990s.