[Ben Hecks]

Massive. The C-5 that is.

I was a passenger on a number of C-5 special missions transporting space launch rocket components. It's a great ride, particularly up in the crew area in front of the wing box. Aft of the wing box is 73 seats on the upper deck. The crew area has seating for something like 24 plus two bedrooms that sleep three each. When you're the only passenger in the crew rest area, you have plenty of room to stretch out. : >)

[crabpott]

Departed TSN RVN (Saigon), essentially a fighter strip, on the first C-5 that landed on that strip in 1971. Flew to Japan. It was loaded with two Chinooks as I recall. We watched a movie set up inside one of the Chinooks. I remember being up in the passenger area, I was the only non crew member, looking down on the rotor hubs of a Chinook. It was so huge the whole experience was and still seems surreal.

[I Buried My Guns]

"...The crew area has seating for something like 24 plus two bedrooms that sleep three each..."

I saw one at El Toro Marine Base when I was about ten, and got to look around it. I did not have the presence of mind to look then, but I've always wondered over the years: Is there a bathroom, or do they have to make "truckers' lemonade"?