U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III.
This C-17 came from Hickam Air Force Base on Oahu, Hawaii and gave a flight demonstration during an airshow.
The Boeing C-17 Globemaster III is a large military transport aircraft developed by McDonnell Douglas from the 1980s to the early 1990s for the United States Air Force.
The C-17 bears the name of two previous piston-engine military cargo aircraft, the Douglas C-74 Globemaster and the Douglas C-124 Globemaster II.
This photo was taken during the Aviation Nation Airshow on 12 November 2016 held at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…