4 people on a scout? Are you joking? Sure you’ve got your pilot/engineer/navigator, but what about the rest of the team? At bare minimum you’ve got another 7 people. Put more supplies in the cargo bay, accept a very crowded lounge, and you can hotbunk another 8-16 people! You can move almost an entire platoon of scouts with one type S if you know what you’re doing. Sure, they have no heavy gear available, and the air/raft is replaced with racks of groceries, but you can find enough space to park the thing at the Costco parking lot, right? What kind of mission doesn’t need 24 scouts?

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 21:21 Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 8:51 AM Bill Rutherford <xxxxxx@comcast.net> wrote:
Re: oversize plans, they kind of did that with the Sherman in the movie Fury - about an M4 Sherman crew in NW Europe (if you don't know the movie, find the Fury movie wikipedia page).  Apparently, all of the interior photography was done with a set that was somewhat overscale because things were way too cramped-looking otherwise. 

I watched Fury in the theater. I've also seen the tour videos posted by The Tank Museum. There didn't seem to be a whole lot of difference between them, to me.
 
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