Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site aluxe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!aluxe!2141smh From: 2141smh@aluxe.UUCP (henning) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: My Airplane is Heavier than Yours Message-ID: <599@aluxe.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 12:14:52 EST Article-I.D.: aluxe.599 Posted: Sat Jan 5 12:14:52 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 13:14:49 EST References: <19@tekig5.UUCP> <500055@uok.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Allentown, PA Lines: 10 **** **** >From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA aluxe!2141smh > > ... (we modified a used 747 to carry the Space Shuttle orbiters). The > > answer is "the same as any other 747... 580,000 to 780,000 lbs... > ... max. is 778,000 lbs. The zero-fuel weight is 526,000 lbs. On a non-stop PanAm flight from NYC to Tokyo in a 747SP, our captain said that the weight of the plane prior to take-off was 55% fuel. A little frightening. It is designed to carry fewer people farther than the 747.