{"id":418742,"date":"2026-05-01T23:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/true-c17-globemaster-powered-by-boeing-757-engines\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:30:18","slug":"is-it-true-that-the-c-17-globemaster-is-powered-by-boeing-757-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=418742","title":{"rendered":"Is It True That The C-17 Globemaster Is Powered By Boeing 757 Engines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who has closely followed the aviation industry over the past decade has undeniably heard the fascinating claim that the United States Air Force&#8217;s C-17 Globemaster III fleet is powered by <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> 757 engines. It is a catchy line unto itself, but it mashes together three different ideas, such as those of the engine maker, engine family, and airframe use. This is sadly only half-true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transport aircraft is a valuable asset for the United States Air Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,398,1379,853,412,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-757","category-c-17-globemaster","category-military","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418743,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418742\/revisions\/418743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}