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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Everyone knows, weight is bad in airplane design.
But, when they were designing the Boeing 777-200ER, a plane that weighs something like half a million pounds, they calculated for flying a 3,000-mile flight, cutting 2,500 pounds could save about 23,250 gallons of jet fuel.
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Cutting 2,500 pounds from
"my" airplane would make it lighter than air; it's not allowed to fly if it weighs more than 2,500lbs.
Only seats four, and there's no lav. Would take several hops to go transcontinental too.
That said, weight is even more of an issue for a little airplane...