I'm not doubting you ... and you load guys know what you are doing, no doubt. A loose M35a2 at 30,000 feet could just ruin your whole day!clovishound wrote: ↑Fri Dec 09, 2022 6:44 pmNot sure what you mean by being "stacked". You couldn't put one on top of another for a lot of reasons. I remember sitting in front of one of them as a new loadmaster, hoping that the tie down I had put on it was sufficient to keep it from rolling over the top of me. I was a pretty much by the book guy, and never had a piece of cargo come loose. It's one thing for a 25 lb piece of luggage to come loose on landing. It's quite another for a 25,000 vehicle to come rolling down the cargo floor at you. I took my job seriously.
And I know I'm getting old ... but I just can't shake the feeling that shipping them was part of what was on their minds, like the multi-fuel engine, when they designed these things. That was the reason for the fold down wind screen, take down exhaust and etc.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I read at least *something* along these lines, so I'm not throwing in the towel just yet.
I know they can be stacked. They did that back in WW2 with Jeeps and trucks. I'm going to keep digging around for post war M35a2 specific info.