At first look, the 2014 Zhuhai Airshow-operating biennially since 1996, it's China's answer to France's Le Bourget and the U.K.'s Farnborough-appeared pretty much the same as it had the past few years. The poor visibility. The huge crowds. The lack of decent food joints. But once visitors got to the aircraft display, they found themselves looking into the massive face of one the largest US. military airplanes, the Boeing C-17 Globemaster.
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