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- In <airliners.1993.90@ohare.Chicago.COM> geoff@tyger.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) writes:
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- >In article 89@ohare.Chicago.COM, weiss@edison.SEAS.UCLA.EDU (Michael Weiss) writes:
- >## What about the shorter-range aircraft, like the 727 and 737? How
- >##do they get from the US to, say, the middle east? Are their ranges just long
- >##enough to make it from New York to London?
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- >That's what Iceland is for! (Apologies to my many Icelandic friends....)
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- Actually, a large part of an airplanes fuel is spent getting off the
- ground and up to crusing altitude. With an empty plane the crusing range
- goes up considerablely. When I worked for Boeing I took a aircraft
- familarization class and I think I remember the instructor saying that a
- fully loaded 747 flying from Seattle to Japan burned almost half its fuel
- taking off.
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- Wondering what it all means,
- Pat
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