All right, but may I wonder how many flights under such extreme load would a flimsy conmverted glider like this would be able to make before showing obvious signs of stress?

One thing is taking aboard those 130 soldiers, which would be a well distributed load, another thing would be a point load like a tank.

How many landings would this plane be able to make? And how long would the flight be? I would like it if Erich could take a peek at this thread.

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