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    Quote Originally Posted by hemmjo View Post
    Unlike the video link, [COLOR="#0000FF"] <<<snipped>>>
    Maximum take of weight for a Boeing 777 is 775,000 lb. 385 Tons. That is carried on only 14 tires. BUT airport runways are built and maintained totally different than common roads.
    Our local Air National Guard, a tactical airlift wing, the runways appear at least 3 feet thick. There are several assigned C-130's, C-17's fly in regularly, dwarfing the 130's. Until a C-5 joins the runway.
    C-5 takeoff max weight is 840,000 pounds; 270,000 pounds cargo + 332,500 pounds fuel; after being refueled in flight. C-5s have weighed 920,836 pounds, on twenty-eight wheels. Good deal, anticipating potential of 460 tons!
    Runway, it seems well prepared, has survived two significant floods of Missouri River, western boundary between states Missouri and Kansas.
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