The largest, newest version of the 747 cargo aircraft has a cargo capacity of about 2/3rds that of the C5, and costs less than $20,000 per flight hour. How tf does the C5 manage to rack up that high of a bill? The military even takes shortcuts on maintainence procedures that are illegal to do on commerical aircraft to save money.
A combat aircraft that make sense for, but for just a cargo plane? Wtf?
I imagine that's why they contract air transport out whenever possible. They basically only use the C5 when they absolutely have to, like for moving tanks and helicopters because the 747 cargo hold isn't setup for stuff like that.
The largest, newest version of the 747 cargo aircraft has a cargo capacity of about 2/3rds that of the C5, and costs less than $20,000 per flight hour. How tf does the C5 manage to rack up that high of a bill? The military even takes shortcuts on maintainence procedures that are illegal to do on commerical aircraft to save money.
A combat aircraft that make sense for, but for just a cargo plane? Wtf?
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I imagine that's why they contract air transport out whenever possible. They basically only use the C5 when they absolutely have to, like for moving tanks and helicopters because the 747 cargo hold isn't setup for stuff like that.