The C-5 aircraft can hold<br /><br />277,000 twelve fluid ounce (355 ml) cans of beverage, <br />76,000 750 ml bottles of wine, <br />752,000 hockey pucks, <br />328,000,000 aspirin tablets, <br />2,400,000 golf balls, <br />10,700 bushels of unshelled Virginia peanuts, <br />25,800,000 ping pong balls (regarding weight), <br />1,000,000 ping pong balls (considering volume), <br />100 Volkswagen Beetles, <br />6 Greyhound buses, <br />3 M1 Abrams battle tanks (although it can only take off with two, and typically carries only one with support equipment), or <br />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. <br /><br />Additionally,<br />The cargo compartment is big enough for an eight-lane bowling alley. <br />The length of the cargo compartment is longer than the distance flown during the Wright brothers' first flight. <br />The C-5 fuel load is almost equal to the gross weight of a C-141 Starlifter. <br />The rudder area is the same as the wing area on the F-104G aircraft. <br />The paint weighs 2,600 pounds (1,200 kilograms). <br />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. <br />Each TF-39 engine gulps approximately 42 short tons (38 metric tons) of air per minute. <br />Each tire wears down approximately 0.002 inch (0.05 mm) per landing. <br />Each engine total power output equals the power produced by 800 average automobiles combined. <br />The C-5 is also known as FRED (****ing Ridiculous Economic/Environmental Disaster) by its crews <br />The aircraft averages 16 hours of maintenance for every hour in the air. <br />The Air Force expects to still be using C5s in the 2040s.
. <br />the nice thing is the amount of USNS ships that port in USN ports,which so far are free of foriegn controls.<br />the USNS ships can be identified by the yellow and blue bands on the stacks. other than that they look about identical to a USN ship.
