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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Delivery flights
- X-Submission-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:26:17 GMT
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- MW> == Michael Weiss <weiss@edison.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
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- MW> Clearly, aircraft with long ranges (such as the 767, 747, DC-10, etc.,
- MW> etc.) can be flown directly from the US to any nation, so delivery is
- MW> no more complicated than flying to the appropriate country. What
- MW> about the shorter-range aircraft, like the 727 and 737? How do they
- MW> get from the US to, say, the middle east? Are their ranges just long
- MW> enough to make it from New York to London?
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- It's my understanding that, at least in some cases, auxiliary fuel bladders
- are used to up the range for delivery flights (and in any case, the lack of
- passenger, luggage, and/or cargo weight increases the amount of fuel that
- can be carried).
-
- Also, for trans-Atlantic delivery flights, routing through Gander or Goose
- Bay is often used.
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