Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site trsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!trsvax!mikey From: mikey@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Re: re:my car is slower than yours Message-ID: <55200126@trsvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Dec-84 11:52:00 EST Article-I.D.: trsvax.55200126 Posted: Sat Dec 29 11:52:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 08:06:21 EST References: <885@ihuxx.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:ihuxx:-88500:trsvax:55200126:000:880 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