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Does the Weight of an Airplane and Contents Change?
A far more important consideration is the fact that the plane loses weight continually by burning thousands of liters of fuel each hour: http://www.flybernhard.de/ueb_eng.htm has lots of tech data on Boeing's fleet. The good old 747, for example, exists in several models with a fuel consumption that varies by model from 14,000 to 15,750 liters/hour. At a specific gravity of 0.775 to 0.840 http://www.slovnaft.sk/showdoc.do?docid=1339 that adds up to a considerable weight loss of 10,850 to 13,320 kg/hr. You *were* including the weight of the *contents* in your consideration, weren't you? Tom Davidson Richmond, VA |
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