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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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That makes no sense. Of course we can't take 800 people and fly non-stop, but she's implying we can't take that many because of that regardless? She mentions in the string we are flying to Kuwait, that's only 1670nm straight line distance, the C-17 can take a payload of 160,000lbs and fly 2800nm.
Assuming each person is 200lbs... that's still 800 people.... Seems to me we have no problem fully loading and flying to a next refuel. We only need to reduce fuel load if we wanted to fly further than 2800nm.