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To: DManA; boop

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: digger48

Plenty long and wide for a bus. Had to check on the height. A quick search showed a Greyhound bus at about 11 feet tall, so 1.5 feet to spare! (Man - those planes are BIG!!! You could almost fit 4 Greyhounds on one plane).


57 posted on 08/29/2011 8:08:45 PM PDT by 21twelve (Obama Recreating the New Deal: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts)
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To: digger48
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)

Nice numbers. Now, what was the size height x width x wheelbase of the bus? See, the roll-in capacity has to include the transition change in height as it goes in over the ramp....

I don't think it will fit.

64 posted on 08/29/2011 8:49:43 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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