19/03/2024
The U.S. military's gargantuan C-5 has a wingspan of 222.8 feet, with each wing measuring the length of a basketball court. According to Popular Mechanics, "the aircraft stands 65 feet tall, the equivalent of a six-and-a-half story building." It can also carry more than 250 million pounds and 350 passengers, even with equipment on board. It is so big that many Air Force bases have had to cut large holes in hangar doors to keep it indoors… well, most of it that is—the tail end still protrudes.