April 03, 2006
Mainstream Media Math
This morning, a U.S. Air Force C-5 Galaxy reported problems after takeoff and crashed while trying to make an emergency landing at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. The plane broke into three large sections, with the nose and tail assembly separating from the fuselage. There are survivors, and perhaps miraculously, there are no confirmed fatalities at this time.
CNN's coverage of the crash provides us with this gem of information about the C-5:
The C-5 can carry 270,000 tons of cargo almost 2,500 miles on one load of fuel. The C-5's wingspan is 28 feet wider than a 747 and the military jet is 16 feet longer than the civilian airliner.
270,000 tons? Wow. That's impressive, especially when considering that the massive Iowa class battleships, at 887 feet, weigh less than 60,000 tons when fully loaded. Is CNN trying to say that a single C-5 can carry four battleships with room left over, or are the much-vaunted multiple layers of editorial oversight in the professional media not all it is cracked up to be?
Here's a hint, CNN: try 270,000 pounds, not 270,000 tons.
I report, you deride.
Correction: Dover is in Delaware, not Maryland. I blame daylight savings time for the error...
It is tons displaced not actual weight for BB's and most ships.
Posted by: jon-hudson spencer at April 3, 2006 11:37 AMUhmm. Dover AFB is in Deleware not Maryland. Maryland has Adnrews AFB.
Posted by: Bruce at April 3, 2006 11:42 AMDidn't Archimedies figure out that if it floats, then tons displaced is the weight?
http://physics.weber.edu/carroll/Archimedes/principle.htm
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