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From: mikey@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Re: re:my car is slower than yours
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Date: Sat, 29-Dec-84 11:52:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 29 11:52:00 1984
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Nf-From: trsvax!mikey    Dec 29 10:52:00 1984



When I flew to Austria a while back on Lufthansa, they had a booklet
at the ticket counter with the specs on all their fleet.  It had date
of maintainence, first flight, captain of first flight, etc.  It even had
stuff like serial number (just in case I wanted to trace a stolen 747) and
so on.  Anyway, it listed the 747 I was on and gave stuff like the model
number of the engines (They were GE) and their average fuel consumption 
which in this case was 4004 gallons per hour.  I don't know how they
averaged this, but I remember at the time that nothing else in the booklet
was even close.  They also had some cost projections on their fleet, but
not by individual plane.  They indicated that the 747SP was their most
profitable plane.  As to the weight, I seem to remember that although a
747 can take off over 750,000 it cant land at much over 550,000.

mikey at trsvax