Third-life test starts for C-17

1995-12-13T00:00:00

McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) has started testing the durability of the C-17 transport to cover a third equivalent lifetime, or up to 90,000 representative flight hours. The work is part of a $15.7 million contract from the US Air Force.

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