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To: naturalman1975
People the C-17 Globemaster is not in the mold of C5 a pure heavy lift strategy transport...it a combo heavy lift /STOL tactical transport (think a heavy lift C130)
41 posted on 12/04/2006 10:35:00 AM PST by tophat9000 (Al-Qaidacrats =A new political party combining the anti American left and the anti Semite right)
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To: tophat9000
...it a combo heavy lift /STOL tactical transport (think a heavy lift C130)

The C-17 can carry the weight of a C-5 in an airframe the size of a C-141 and land and take off in the space of a C-130.

Whew!

56 posted on 12/22/2006 7:13:36 PM PST by Snickersnee (Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
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