| | Edwards Air Force Base - C-17 Test Team increases personnel airdrop capability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The C-17 Test Team here recently deployed to Pope Air Force Base, N.C., where they performed multiple personnel drop test missions that lead to a 15,000-pound increase in the maximum gross weight for C-17 personnel airdrop operations. |
 | | The capacity of the aircraft is unaffected, but what testers here did was prove that it is safe for paratroopers to exit the aircraft at the higher weight, added Major Greer. |
 | | The testing increments concluded with three operationally representative test missions using 51 combat equipped paratroopers on each mission, which resulted in the Army Test and Evaluation Command certifying the safety for single door operations at aircraft weights up to and including 400,000 pounds, he added. |
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