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Transport Isolation System pods

USAF Testing Rapidly Developed System to Fly Infectious Patients

April 22, 2020 | By Brian W. Everstine
A joint Air Force team on April 21 delivered a rapidly developed containment system prototype that will enable as many as 28 COVID-positive patients to be transported aboard a C-17. The team, led by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and the Air Force’s ...

USAF Flies First COVID-19 Positive Patients with Isolation Pods

April 13, 2020 | By Brian W. Everstine
The Air Force employed its specially designed isolation pods to transport highly contagious COVID-19 positive patients from Afghanistan to Germany on April 10, the first use of the system in the new coronavirus outbreak, while the service is also developing a more advanced version of ...

Air Force Readying Isolation Pods for Transporting COVID-19 Patients

April 2, 2020 | By John A. Tirpak
Aeromedical flight crews are training at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., on an older isolation system for transporting highly infectious patients by air, even as the Air Force rapidly develops and tests a newer and more elaborate system for the mission. Testing on the C-17 is ...
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