The Total Force C-17 team at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, has received the second of its new C-17 airlifters. It was flown to Hawaii from the Boeing production plant in Long Beach, Calif., on Feb. 21. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports that some 30 civic leaders from Hawaii made the flight aboard the C-17. (Note to Star-Bulletin: Nice article, but the C-17 is a strategic cargo plane.)
The Air Force has finished modifying and testing the new VC-25B Bridge aircraft that will serve as a temporary Air Force One, the service announced May 1. All that’s left now is to finish painting the jet before it starts flying this summer.