4/8/2013 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Senior Airman Joseph Farrell checks the inside of the C-17 Globemaster III before beginning a preflight inspection March 27, 2013, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Farrell is an electronic warfare systems journeyman assigned to the 445th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron. The C-17 can take off and land on runways as short as 3,500 feet and 90 feet wide. (U.S. Air Force/photo Staff Sgt. Mikhail Berlin)