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Episode 12: The Heavy: Air Mobility, Strategic Airlift and the CC-177 Globemaster III - John

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How to Land an Aurora at 3,000 Feet

The Aurora can land at 502,000 pounds in the size of two hockey rings. That's more than the all up weight of the whole Aurora maxed out as per the short-field landing. You get thrown up against your straps, everything in the back. There has been times when things haven't been strapped down quite so as tight as they should have been and did not depart the aircraft in the same condition they were put on the aircraft in.

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