R. David Steele wrote:

The F-35 is basically the same plane as the F-22. It has been
modified to be a carrier aircraft.

Nonsense. The F-35 only has some cosmetic resemblance to the F-22. It was
designed from the ground up as a carrier aircraft and is very different
internally.


The C-17 was marketed to commercial users with the government
offering incentives. The plane has design elements for its
military missions that make it less economical to operate in
the civilian world that civil designs.

What is its civilian reference.

It used to be called the MD-17, and is now marketed as the BC-17X.

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/pd/bc17x/index.html
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