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...and Just What Is A BC-17X Supposed To Be?

747-600X From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 2742 posts, RR: 17
Posted (11 years 11 months 1 week 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1261 times:

Heya,

If you go into Boeing's website and go into the gallery and go into the military menu, you notice a plane registered as the BC-17X. If you click on one of the photos, you get what looks to me like a C-17 in Boeing's colors. A few years ago, before the Boeing takeover, this same plane and that same picture were called the MD-17. Is this thing A) real? B) any different from the C-17???

"Mental health is reality at all cost." -- M. Scott Peck, 'The Road Less Traveled'

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GDB From United Kingdom, joined May 2001, 12708 posts, RR: 80
Reply 1, posted (11 years 11 months 1 week 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 1210 times:

Yes, it's just that, a civil C-17. High civil certification costs may be a barrier to sales, but Boeing and the USAF are pressing the DoD to buy 10 as a reserve transport fleet, but US freight carriers which would operate them have yet to show any interest.

MikeN From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (11 years 11 months 1 week 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 1195 times:

GDB is correct. Here is a photo (art) of the BC-17X....

http://www.theaviationzone.com/images/globemaster/bin-3/c17127.jpg

C17load From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (11 years 11 months 1 week 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 1179 times:

True......it's the model marketed as a civilian variant. Was talking to some FEDEX mgmt folks at Millinton (Memphis) last month, and they aren't really interested in it just yet. They had just contracted a bunch of MD-11's instead. Shame.....I was looking for a retirement job too!