[USNBandit]

That will really mess up a deck. What kind of cargo weight can you get on a typical COD hit? I would think it would be bigger than an Osprey.

I was in CAG-5 back in the Indy days in VF-21.

[Proyecto Anonimo]

Indy centurion here, VF-21 was before my time though. The COD could stuff 6000 pounds inside before it cubed out. Technically we could haul 10K pounds of trash. We could trap with 30 people including 2 pilots, 2 crew.

The cool think about the COD was the ability to fly 1000 miles in 3.8 hours with 6000 pounds of pony and ice cream, and then get clear of the LA like any other airplane in CAG 5.

AND... since our two airplanes were too big to spend the night on the boat, we could tell all the chicas on the beach that we flew F-14s -— and there were no Tomcat guys around to tell them we were lying.