Airdrop pic of the day. High frame MSP with almost a full war load at the point of exit. Full war load and you could not see the vehicles for the 'wall' of stores. We could drop two of these from the 'K'. A maximum of 18000 lbs each although there were one or two overload clearances. In the high point of airdrop we could drop vehicles, bridging equipment and all manner of things.
You can clearly see the anti swing chute on the at the front of the load. Note how close the MSP is to the cargo door ! The twin bomb racks which held the extractor chute can also be seen. Very tricky to load these high loads especially when the RAF Condecs (transfer loader) became old and difficult for even the best Condec operator to finesse accurately.
If anyone is interested I can dig into my memory bank and relate the sequence of events of one of these drops.