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Very interesting how the 747 seemed to fit both passenger and cargo roles for so long.

Boeing designed the plane to be easily convertible to a freighter because they expected the market for subsonic passenger travel to vanish during its lifetime. Sadly they didn’t get that one right but helps explain why it has done quite well as a freighter. For example the hump allows it to be loaded from the nose.

I didn't know the reasoning. Very interesting.

Kinda the opposite of the Airbus situation where they banked on a mostly single use plane plane that was all about moving a large volume of passengers a long distance and instead smaller planes took over and the plane was of little use beyond passengers.

The C-130 Hercules platform says "Hello there!"

My passenger experience on a C-130 makes me believe they are optimized for cargo :)

I've actually never landed in a C-130. Taken off a bunch of times though :).

I feel like the commercial market is a bit different ;)

I want to bring my family with me on a two week summer trip to Hawaii onboard a military C-130.

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