DavidTC
Since: Jan, 2001
Feb 3rd 2016 at 11:48:13 AM
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Heh, I can't do math. I meant to say the lab is not 75 feet long, aka, the lab is not taking up the entire first floor.
Why is there a claim that 'Not to mention that the interior is way too big for a C-17.'?
C-17s are *huge*. They have cargo areas that are 88 feet long! (Plus the ramp with the cars on it.) and 18 feet wide, and about two and a half stories tall. (Wikipedia claims it's 12 feet tall, but they mean the *entrance* is 12 feet tall, and it can't carry things taller than that. If you look at interior pictures, you can find them carrying tanks and having a huge amount of space overhead.)
The set is clearly the correct width (As you can tell by two vehicles side-by-side on the ram, in fact the C-17 often carry two rows of vehicles side-by-side) and mostly the correct height (Coulson's office, on the partial third-floor, sticks up a bit on the outside of the plane.)
From back to front, there's about 15 feet between the ramp and the lab. The lab is not 65 feet long, and there's a storage area in front of it and we have no way to tell how large that is, so let's look at the second floor.
On the second floor, going from back to front, there's the interrogation room, which looks to be about 10 feet square (With hallways down either side.). Then there's the little conference area with bar that's maybe 25 feet long, then the glass command center that is also about 20 feet long, another five feet or so to reach the bunk area, then a bunk area we can tell (Assuming standard six foot long beds.) is 20 feet long. And a tiny gallery that is 10 feet. (With what is presumably a restroom next to it, although we never see it.)
And there's the cockpit and pilot quarters in front of that, but that isn't within the '88 feet' of cargo area we're talking about.
That's...90 feet, in my very very rough estimate. That's well within guestimation error for 88 feet. In fact, it rather appears the set was *designed* to fit correctly, as in, they laid out an area the size of a C-17 and built the second-floor set inside it.
It is possible that there are some outliers that would make it not fit, I'm suspicious of Coulson's office a bit, it seems like it should stick up more. And I'm not sure you should fly a plane with cars parked on the *ramp*, which seem structurally unsafe...OTOH, a 69 ton tank can drive up that ramp. But the interior is not 'way too big'! It is, at best, very slightly too big.
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