DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Boeing-Built C-17 Fleet Surpasses 2 Million Flight Hours....NSI News Source Info # 1361(NSI News Source Info) LONG BEACH, Calif.,- December 20, 2010: The worldwide fleet of C-17 Globemaster III airlifters built by The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] surpassed 2 million flying hours during an airdrop mission over Afghanistan on Dec. 10. Reaching 2 million flight hours equates to 1.13 billion nautical miles – the equivalent of a C-17 flying to the moon and back 2,360 times.
The representative mission, flown by a U.S. Air Force C-17, airdropped 74,000 pounds of jet fuel in support of U.S. and coalition troops just south of Kabul.
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