Specifications (C-97)
Data from Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter
General characteristics
- Crew: 4 (Pilot, Copilot, Navigator, Flight engineer)
- Capacity:
- 96 troops or
- 69 stretchers or
- tanker equipment
- Length: 110 ft 4 in (33.7 m)
- Wingspan: 141 ft 3 in (43.1 m)
- Height: 38 ft 3 in (11.7 m)
- Wing area: 1,734 ft² (161.1 m²)
- Empty weight: 82,500 lb (37,410 kg)
- Loaded weight: 120,000 lb (54,420 kg)
- Useful load: 37,500 lb (17,010 kg)
- Max. takeoff weight: 175,000 lb (79,370 kg)
- Powerplant: 4 × Pratt & Whitney R-4360B Wasp Major radial engines, 3,500 hp (2,610 kW) 28-cylinders each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 375 mph (603 km/h)
- Cruise speed: 260 knots (300 mph, 482 km/h)
- Range: 4,949 nm (4,300 mi, 6,920 km)
- Ferry range: 5,000 nm (5,760 mi, 9,270 km)
- Service ceiling: 35,000 ft (10,670 m)
- Wing loading: 69.2 lb/ft² (337.8 kg/m²)
- Power/mass: 0.117 hp/lb (192 W/kg)
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