"Ron" wrote in message
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This has been mooted, either as is or in a civil variant, at various
times. For some of the issues involved you might wish to read "C-17
-- How to Get More for Less":

http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA357811

It's about 2 meg.

And not a new idea, either. I was leafing through the FAA Type
Dertificate Data Sheets one day, and discovered that the Lockheed
C-141 had been certificated for civilian use.


McD had been marketing the civil C-17 as the MD-17.

With Long Beach's antics of last year, the name Douglas will never be on
another civilian airplane.