I found the quote below on USAF's C-5 Factsheet.
"The Galaxy has 12 internal wing tanks with a total capacity of 51,150 gallons (194,370 liters) of fuel -- enough to fill 6 1/2 regular size railroad tank cars."
I think the Wright brothers were still flying when a "regular size" tankcar has about 7,869 gallons.
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Carl
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Wow! I'd never really thought of it that way, but I could drive around 900,000 miles on that much fuel...
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CShaveRRYup--I remember those "8000-gallon" standard ARA-III tank cars (and, yes, I believe Orville was still alive when I was born). I think I even saw some old ARA-II cars in service--those had the valve off the side of the dome...remember domes?
Carl: Would like to know when that item was written?. One standard configuration of mobile airport fuel tankers just happens to be 8000 Gallons. Full of fuel they would weigh 110 - 120K #s. Have 4 steer tires and some number of back tires. (No problem on an airport). There are greater capacities but I don't remember those capacitys. Usually airports that have high capacity aircraft now go to hydrant fueling and the fueliing truck or just maybe a trailer will only weigh 10 - 20K #s.
Maybe the author got his number from the air?
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