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Beagle, are you really telling us specifications should be drawn up on the basis of the dimensions of one hangar?
Stirling bomber was, and let's not forget the Viscount, that had a pax capacity based on what the BOAC pax bus could carry.
Remember the other BAe idea touted for the 146, that of the side loading combat transporter that required you to build a ramp up to unload it.
Nice in a combat situation...... It didn't sell, and also remember all these far flung tanker ideas etc are all built around cobbling it together out of someone else's 30 year old cast off.. As they do not built them anymore.