Aircraft Fact Sheets (USAF)

and Fun Facts

C-17 Globemaster III

The Boeing Company

https://www.boeing.com/defense-space/military/c117/c17spec.htm

KC-10A Fact Sheet

USAF/Air Mobility Command Public Affairs, Scott AFB, IL

Jun 1999

http://www.af.mil/nes/factsheets/KC_10A_Extender.html

VC-25 Fact Sheet

USAF/Air Mobility Command Public Affairs, Scott AFB, IL

Jul 03

http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=131&page=1

C-17A Fact Sheet

USAF/Air Mobility Command Public Affairs, Scott AFB, IL

Mar 03

http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=86&page=1

C-32A Fact Sheet

USAF/Air Mobility Command Public Affairs, Scott AFB, IL

Mar 03

http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=90&page=1

C-40B/C Fact Sheet

USAF/Air Mobility Command Public Affairs, Scott AFB, IL

Jun 03

http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet_print.asp?fsID=189&page=1

KC-135A FUN FACTS

·         The cargo area will easily hold a bowling alley with plenty of room left over for a gallery of fans.  It is almost 11 feet wide, 86 1/2 feet long, and 7 feet high.  It would take 220 average car trunks to equal this space. 

·         The average passenger car would operate for more than a year on the amount of fuel transferred through the air refueling boom in one minute.  A gas station pump operating continuously for 24 hours could not pump as much fuel as a KC-135 pushes through its boom in 8 minutes. 

·         There is enough rubber in the tires of the tanker to produce 100 car tires. 

·         The heat generated to provide window anti-icing is sufficient to keep a 7 room house comfortably warm. 

·         There are almost a half of a million rivets used in the production of one KC-135.  These rivets range in cost form 14 cents to $1.50 each, installed. 

·         Fuel cells in the KC-135 are made of nylon fabric less than 1/16 of an inch thick.  A fuel cell weighing 80 pounds will hold 7 tons of fuel. 

·         5,000 wires totaling 14.5 miles in length are needed in the electrical circuits of the tanker. 

·         To lubricate the engines, the KC-135 carries a 64 gallon oil supply, which is enough for 50 cars. 

·         Under normal landing conditions, the brakes absorb enough energy to stop, simultaneously, 432 cars traveling at 50 miles per hour.  Under full braking power, the brakes would stop almost 975 cars. 

·         At an ambient air temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, at full power, each of the engines uses 8,540,000 cubic feet of air per hour.  This volume is equal to the same amount of volume in a 22-story building that measures 100 feet wide and 300 feet long. 

·         About 45% of the airframe weight of the KC-135 was subcontracted to firms, other than Boeing, located in 48 different states.  There 3,800 small businesses (employing less than 500 persons each) which supplied parts or assemblies to Boeing. 

·         To augment its thrust, on maximum performance take-offs, the KC-135A would “burn” 570 gallons of water, weighing over 5,000 pounds, injected into its engines in less than two minutes.

KC-135R Fun Facts

·         The cargo area will easily hold a bowling alley with plenty of room left over for a gallery of fans.  It is almost 11 feet wide, 86 1/2 feet long, and 7 feet high.  It would take 220 average car trunks to equal this space. 

·         The average passenger car would operate for more than a year on the amount of fuel transferred through the air refueling boom in one minute.  A gas station pump operating continuously for 24 hours could not pump as much fuel as a KC-135 pushes through its boom in 8 minutes. 

·         There is enough rubber in the tires of the tanker to produce 100 car tires.

·         The heat generated to provide window anti-icing is sufficient to keep a 7 room house comfortably warm. 

·         There are almost a half of a million rivets used in the production of one KC-135.  These rivets range in cost form 14 cents to $1.50 each, installed. 

·         Fuel cells in the KC-135 are made of nylon fabric less than 1/16 of an inch thick.  A fuel cell weighing 80 pounds will hold 7 tons of fuel. 

·         5,000 wires totaling 14.5 miles in length are needed in the electrical circuits of the tanker.

·         Under normal landing conditions, the brakes absorb enough energy to stop, simultaneously, 461 cars traveling at 50 miles per hour. Under full braking power, the brakes would stop almost 1042 cars.

·         At an ambient air temperature of 59 degrees Fahrenheit, at take-off power, each of the engines uses: 2,836,800 lbs. of air per hour, or about 15,030,400 cubic feet of air per hour. This volume is equal to the same amount of volume in a 39-story building that measures 100 feet wide and 300 feet long.

·         The bypass ratio is 6.0; meaning that for every cubic foot of air that is ingested by the core (combusted), 6 cubic feet are bypassed via the turbofan.

·         The floor of the KC-135 is made of 3/8 inch thick, 5-ply Douglas Fir plywood, either exterior grade, marine grade, or both sides treated with a Medium Density Overlay (MDO). The plywood is Grade A, Class A-B surface with the Class A side positioned upward.

·         Additional Engine facts (the KC-135R F108-CF-100 engine is a:  CFM56-2 TURBOFAN ENGINE, with:  22,000 - 24,000 POUNDS THRUST.  http://www.cfm56.com/engines/cfm56-2/history.html>

KC-10 FUN FACTS

·         210,000 parts (not including engines) 

·         1,750,000 fasteners 

·         1,250,000 aluminum alloy rivets 

·         400,000 locking bolts 

·         100,000 screws 

·         30,000 strands of wire attached to 60,000 terminators (laid end to end, this would stretch 50 miles or across Lake Michigan) 

·         Delivers 200,000 lbs. of fuel to a receiver 2,200 statue miles from home and return; can carry a maximum cargo payload of 170,000 lbs. a distance of 4,370 statue miles. 

 ·         Unrefueled ferry range of the KC-10 of the KC-10 11,500 miles, or non-stop from             Saudi Arabia to California

 ·         Powered by three General Electric CF6-50C2 engines, each producing 52,500 pounds         of thrust.  Each KC-10 engine produces more thrust than 4 KC-135A J-57 engines        combined! 

·         Engines produce 38,500 horsepower - EACH, or 115,500 horsepower total, which is equivalent to 577 autos (200 HP V-8's), or 15,400 riding mowers!

·         Normal cruise is 496 KIAS (570 MPH), .825 Mach

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