This is Fred.

I can attest to the size of this monster, I had a chance to walk into one and you can almost put a basketball court inside.
The C-5 aircraft can hold
- 277,000 twelve fluid ounce (355 ml) cans of beverage,
- 76,000 750 ml bottles of wine,
- 752,000 hockey pucks,
- 328,000,000 aspirin tablets,
- 2,400,000 golf balls,
- 10,700 bushels of unshelled Virginia peanuts,
- 25,800,000 ping pong balls,
- 100 Volkswagen Beetles,
- 6 Greyhound buses,
- 3 battle tanks, or
- Enough fuel for the average American car to make 130 round trips from Los Angeles to New York, or to make 31 trips around the world.
Additionally,
- The cargo compartment is big enough for an eight-lane bowling alley.
- The length of the cargo compartment is longer than the distance flown during the Wright brothers' first flight.
- The C-5 fuel load is almost equal to the gross weight of a C-141 Starlifter.
- The rudder area is the same as the wing area on the F-104G aircraft.
- The paint weighs 2,600 pounds (1,200 kilograms).
- The C-5 contains more than 103 miles (165 km) of wire, 4 miles (6 km) of tubing, and 5 miles (8 km) of control cables.
- Each TF-39 engine gulps approximately 42 short tons (38 metric tons) of air per minute.
- Each tire wears down approximately 0.002 inch (0.05 mm) per landing.
- Each engine total power output equals the power produced by 800 average automobiles combined.
- The C-5 is also known as FRED (Fucking Ridiculous Economic Disaster) by its crews
- The aircraft averages 16 hours of maintenance for every hour in the air.
- The Air Force expects to still be using C5s in the 2040s.


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