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Alex (Fire_Emblem_Master) Chief Captain

I dont know if anyone had really paid attention to this in the past, but I thought it was kinda amazing.

When I was trying the "Challenge" thing in that paticular post, I had a 717. I had about 300lbs of fuel onboard. What I thought was sorta interesting was the sheer amout of fuel it drank just taking off.

I got about 3/4 down the runway, and 20 feet in the air, when it ran out of fuel O.O

I thought it was interesting just how much it took ONLY to get it in the air!

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Jason (Av8r77) First Officer

If you are talking about some sicraft, they can have fuel burns that are in the low 10,000lbs per hour. 300 lbs isn't much even in a C-130 which has about 6,000 lbs an hour burn.

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Alex (Fire_Emblem_Master) Chief Captain

Not pounds per hour, I mean 300 lbs for 5 SECONDS of operation!

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Jason (Av8r77) First Officer

I meant 300 lbs isn't that much total fuel.
With 6000 pph, that's 600 ppm.
We figure 1,000 lbs alone for start, taxi and take-off.

My point was that you were lucky to hit Vr with 300 lbs.

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Ed Reagle (edr1073) First Officer

Fire_Emblem_Master,

I bet that gave you a sinking feeling...LOL

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nottobe Captain

we can put it this way: if you could sneak into the engine when is runing, you would see the fuel injector is so damn big that the fuel is actually gushing out like from a broken fire hydrant.......for B747-400, 4 engines take a gallan per second....try to top off your gallan milk bottle in one second, see how big your faucet has to be Surprised

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Jon Van Duyn (JVD) Captain

The only thing on my mind now is, How fast does it take a concorde to guzzle that amount of fuel ❓

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Alex (Fire_Emblem_Master) Chief Captain

Concorde burns during cruise 25629 Lieters of fuel per hour.

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Andrew (n287s) Trainee

yeah that is amazing. heres something i found in an issue of Atlantic Flyer...

(this is a real ATC conversation)
ATC: 727, make two 360s for traffic spacing
727 captain: Tower, do you know that it costs $2,000 to make a 360 in this airplane?
ATC: Ok, then give me $4,000 worth of 360s

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