Originally Posted by
GlobalNav
It’s strictly speculation on my part, but Boeing probably met the written requirement of being able to securely load the latrine. The Air Force folks who wrote the RFP and evaluated Boeing’s proposal were probably unaware of the latrine’s design details, at least regarding its required orientation.
I agree and would add to that, the latrine is likely a 'standard' pallet size - and as a freighter the main deck is configured to hold a bunch of standard pallets (~20 IIRC)(a real pain to walk around back there due to all the automated cargo handling hardware - for flight tests they had these floor panel things mounted so everyone didn't fall on the butts, but they didn't cover the whole cargo floor). But due to the width of interior, to allow side by side pallets they are oriented with the 'long' side fore and aft. The latrine was designed to be loaded with the 'short' side fore and aft.
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