Do those bulky pieces fit in a belly?
Looking at just how big the useful cargo spaces in a belly are… like Boeing 717 rear cargo compartment… the height of belly is at most 99 cm from ceiling to flat floor at most 84 cm wide, in the front belly… in rear belly, there is not supposed to be a flat floor… the rear belly compartment is a total of 540 cm long… the cargo door opens inwards, and needs a clearance that extends across the aircraft centerline…
Pretty awkward place to insert big bulky pieces, isn´t it?
On the 767, 777 and 747 that we handle the standard Cargo Pallet is 125 inches long, 96 inches wide and you can go to 63 Inches high. So if you have one piece of freight that big on a pallet then i would call that fairly bulky !
You can fairly comfortably fit a Formula One type car on a pallet, and on a 767-300 you can have a long piece (Such as a Yacht Mast) up to around 146 inches long as the Pallets are loaded lengthways down the Aircraft from nose to tail, they have to be turned as they go in the door.
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