And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Used to work on those beasts, you got to stand under one to fully grasp just how big they are, its said one wing generates 176,000 lbs of lift at take off. They can take in something like 67,000 lbs of fuel. Crazy how good they fly.
Those are 727 numbers. The 747 weighs 375,000lbs or more empty, without a drop of fuel aboard. Max fuel weight is 361,000lbs on a standard day. Fuel density changes with temperature so if you're fuelling with Jet A at -20C/-4F you can board 4.3% more by weight. Conversely if you're fuelling in Arizona in the summertime you lose 4 or 5% of your capacity. Al_in_Ottawa
sweet...what I assume is a 747 in the boneyard near the old Gorge AFB...
ReplyDeleteYes, that old plane has seen better flying days.
ReplyDeleteCouple hundred years, someone will come across that, like the Egyptians' found the pyramids '.
ReplyDeleteOK, Bob.... we'll wait and see if you can fly it outta there, or afford to pay for the JET FUEL for taxi to the runway. Bob? Bob? Where'd you go Bob!?
ReplyDeleteThat's almost like one of the marooned astronaut pics.
ReplyDeleteDibs!!!
ReplyDeleteUsed to work on those beasts, you got to stand under one to fully grasp just how big they are, its said one wing generates 176,000 lbs of lift at take off. They can take in something like 67,000 lbs of fuel. Crazy how good they fly.
ReplyDeleteThose are 727 numbers. The 747 weighs 375,000lbs or more empty, without a drop of fuel aboard. Max fuel weight is 361,000lbs on a standard day. Fuel density changes with temperature so if you're fuelling with Jet A at -20C/-4F you can board 4.3% more by weight. Conversely if you're fuelling in Arizona in the summertime you lose 4 or 5% of your capacity.
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