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humanodon  ·  3906 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Madness of the Lockheed CL-1201

    So for scale and perspective, go look at that link again and keep your eye out for a "medium intratheater transport." Imagine each one of those says "Southwest Airlines" on the side and you're at about the scale being discussed.

Yeah, I saw that and the note about the thing towing all of those. Plus there was that thing about 22 multirole aircraft or something. Big. Gotcha.

    Imagine landing it. Imagine flying it in a storm. Imagine the PR fun involved in having half a Chernobyl overhead.

Haha, yeah. My buddy was an engineer on a sub and was telling me all about how it's a pain to do maintenance on that thing, in part because of all the safety protocols, so I'd imagine that servicing a working example of one of these things would be a pain.