Photograph source and reuse terms

A Royal Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft at a Middle East airbase on 4 August 2011. Archive photograph; it does not show the aircraft or unidentified objects in the February 2026 reports. Credit: Sergeant Ross Tilly RAF. Open Government Licence v1.0 (OGL v1.0). Resized proportionally to a maximum 2400-pixel edge and re-encoded as WebP; full original framing preserved, with no cropping, generation, overlay or upscaling.

Original file page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RAF_C17_Transport_Aircraft_MOD_45153117.jpg
Original image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/RAF_C17_Transport_Aircraft_MOD_45153117.jpg
License: Open Government Licence v1.0 (OGL v1.0)
License terms: https://nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/1/
Original photograph date: 2011-08-04
Real photograph: yes
Depicts the current event: False
Stored first-party; no generative edits, overlays, upscaling or new cropping.