The manner in which loads are to be packed and unpacked for an
air-borne operation is fully as important as the weight to be carried
by available aircraft. Some items, though not too heavy, may be too
bulky to be loaded; again, if the plane is to carry bicycles or
passengers, obviously it may not carry its maximum tonnage. Speed in
deplaning is so essential in most air-borne operations that it is
rather unusual to load a Ju-52 to anything like its weight-carrying capacity. It
has been said that the outstanding advantage of the Ju-52 and the Ju-90 is
that their trapdoors can be opened almost as wide as the aircraft on either the
top or the bottom of the fuselage.