BC-17X airplane modelIn the mid 1990s, McDonnell Douglas began to market the C 17 to commercial civilian operators, under the name MD 17. Due to its high projected fuel, maintanence and depreciation cost for a low cycle military design in commercial service, as well as a limited market dominated by the An 124 and A300 600ST, very little interest was expressed. After McDonnell Douglas merged with Boeing, the program was renamed BC 17. However, the aircraft has had no

and a good radar

It was lightly armed and suffered high losses from powerful American fighters

It was developed from the single-seat F-80 fighter by lengthening the fuselage slightly more than three feet to accommodate a second cockpit

Rotorspan 15 1/2 inches

Chuck Yeager piloted the rocket plane to a speed of Mach 2

the Aviatik D

doppler-bounded inertial navigation system (INS)

amazing planes which could reach almost 300 mph

were first used in combat in Vietnam in March 1965 while stationed on the USS Independence

but as research aircraft for the advanced study of aerodynamics

featured such innovations as internal bomb storage

with the main gear folding inward toward the fuselage