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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Could one of those buses really fit into a C-17?

Any experts out there?


31 posted on 08/29/2011 7:26:10 PM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

The article said one or more C-17s. So do the buses come apart and then are re-assembled? Not sure I believe this story.


37 posted on 08/29/2011 7:35:10 PM PDT by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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C-17 Globemaster III

Cargo Compartment: length, 88 feet (26.82 meters); width, 18 feet (5.48 meters); height, 12 feet 4 inches (3.76 meters)

Load: 102 troops/paratroops; 36 litter and 54 ambulatory patients and attendants; 170,900 pounds (77,519 kilograms) of cargo (18 pallet positions

http://www.af.mil/information/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=86


45 posted on 08/29/2011 7:46:57 PM PDT by digger48
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To: DManA; boop

could carry two of those busses and have room left over for a few pallets of boob belts.


47 posted on 08/29/2011 7:48:46 PM PDT by digger48
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