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Another interesting "big" plane was the cargo version of the B-36, called the XC-99 (they only built one, otherwise it would have just been the C-99).
Info here says room for "400 troops". Maybe a commercial version (which PanAm had options on 3 of them in 1945 for it's Hawaii route) could have held more. It also was a double-deck design, interior voume was 16,117 sq ft. Could haul 50 tons of cargo (that's just cargo weight now), weighed 135,732 empty and 265,000 lb gross. Cruising speed was 290mph, but remember "it's a gasser". I think it still exists down near DFW somewhere, near where the Convair plant used to be.
Gilly
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