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A C-17 from March Air Reserve Base's 729th Airlift Squadron participated in the Aalborg, Denmark air show held this month at the Air Transport Wing of the Royal Danish Air Force. Attendees of the Aalborg airshow take a break in the shade of the massive cargo area of the aircraft before getting a glimpse of the flight deck. The crew conducted an air capabilities demonstration and then opened the aircraft to the many thousands of viewers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joe Davidson)


March aircraft a hit in Denmark

A C-17 from March Air Reserve Base's 729th Airlift Squadron participated in the Aalborg, Denmark air show held this month at the Air Transport Wing of the Royal Danish Air Force. Attendees of the Aalborg airshow take a break in the shade of the massive cargo area of the aircraft before getting a glimpse of the flight deck. The crew conducted an air capabilities demonstration and then opened the aircraft to the many thousands of viewers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joe Davidson)

Related Imagery
On Aug. 30, 2011, Dan Reichel, ManTech SRS Technologies, presented a poster of the a satellite launch seven years ago to the March Air Reserve Base crew who retrieved its expended rocket parts. Reichel traveled from Coca Beach, Fla., to Los Angeles International Airport to identify the space debris the crew delivered from Mongolia as Air Force property. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Linda Welz)
Air Force reservists hoist a 480-pound rocket part into a C-17 Globemaster III, Aug. 26, 2011. The aircraft was in Mongolia from the 729th Airlift Squadron at March Air Reserve Base, Calif., to retrieve fallen space debris. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Linda Welz)
Tech. Sgt. Ronald Dunn, 729th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, guides a Mongolian driver who is backing the truck toward an Air Force Reserve C-17 Globemaster III in Mongolia, Aug. 26. Dunn was part of a crew from March Air Reserve Base, Calif., who were assigned to a mission to retrieve space debris that fell to earth last summer. The parts were identified as expended rocket parts from an Air Force missile launched into space nearly a decade ago. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Linda Welz)
A local representative observes Tech. Sgt. John Lowe as he weighs a hydrogen fuel tank at the Chinngis Khaan International Airport, Mongolia, Aug. 26, 2011. Lowe was part of a 15-person Air Force Reserve crew that departed from March Air Reserve Base, Calif., on a mission to Mongolia to retrieve fallen satellite parts for NASA. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Linda Welz)
During a space debris retrieval mission in August, 2011, veteran airlift crew members from March Air Reserve Base, Calif., said Mongolia seemed much unchanged since the military's first flight into the country in 1991. Here a village sits on a hill overlooking the Chinngis Khaan International Airport in Mongolia, Aug. 26, 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Linda Welz) A Mongolian village sits on a hill overlooking the airport where the March C-17 picked up the rocket debris.
(clockwise from back left) Master Sgt. Lance Augustine, Tech. Sgt. Ronald Dunn, Tech. Sgt. John Lowe and Staff Sgt. Renee Young discuss a plan for loading expended rocket parts onto the C-17 Globemaster III, in Mongolia, Aug. 26, 2011. The rocket parts had fallen to earth and landed in Mongolia last summer. The March aircraft and crew were selected for the retrieval mission. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Linda Welz)
Master Sgt. Lance Augustine, a 729th Airlift Squadron loadmaster, measures the dimensions of an expended stage II rocket in Mongolia, Aug. 26, 2011. Augustine was part of a 15-person Air Force Reserve crew that departed from March Air Reserve Base, Calif., on a mission to Mongolia to retrieve fallen satellite parts for NASA. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Linda Welz)
At the Chinngis Khaan International Airport, Tech. Sgt. John Lowe, 50th Aerial Port Squadron, inspects a satellite rocket's expended hydrogen tank, Aug. 26, 2011. The tank and two other pieces of debris fell onto Mongolian soil after orbiting the Earth for nearly a decade. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Linda Welz)
March aircrew and aerial port members load a maintenance pallet onto a C-17 Globemaster III, Wednesday, August 24, 2011, in preparation for a mission to pick up cargo in Mongolia for NASA. An Air Force Reserve crew from March Air Reserve Base, Calif., flew a C-141 Starlifter into the landlocked nation in July 1991 and were the first U.S. military aircraft to land there. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Linda Welz)
A 729th Airlift Squadron C-17 Globemaster III flies over Angel Stadium in Anaheim on July 4. The flyover was the second of 15 Independence Day flyovers for the aircraft. A 912th Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 Stratotanker also made two flyovers on July 4. March Air Reserve Base Facebook and Twitter followers emailed photos to the 452nd Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs Office and shared dozens of March aircraft spottings that day. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo)
729th Airlift Squadron pilots Lt. Col. Jim Daronco and Maj. Dave Losey hold their C-17 Globemaster on a steady course and speed while a 336th/912th Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 Stratotanker lowers its boom for a refueling, June 25. The refueling took place during the 452nd Air Mobility Wing’s employer’s day. Approximately fifty employers of Air Force reservists were able to witness the refueling from the cockpit of the C-17 and the boom pod of the KC-135. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Patrick Cabellon)
Help for American Somoa: Aircrew and FEMA members off-load supplies and equipment from the back of a 729th Airlift Squadron C-17 at Hickam AFB in Hawaii. The C-17 flew from March ARB to Dobbins ARB, Ga., Oct. 2, where 16 members of FEMA and a FEMA truck and communications trailer were boarded and flown to Hickam AFB as part of the humanitarian support mission after an earthquake and tsunami devastated the region. After Hickam, the C-17 flew three FEMA passengers and five generators to Pago Pago. On the return flight, the March aircraft carried Army National Guard Soldiers, first responders and Anthony M. Babauta, U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Areas. March remained on alert for further tsunami relief missions from Oct. 1-6. (U.S. Air Force Photo/ Master Sgt. Daniel Nathaniel III)
Staff Sgt. Joe Davidson
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