Re:British Airways announces immediate retirement of 747 fleet
by lmm on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:30AM
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The Airlander 10 wrote off their old prototype, and has a maximum payload of 10 tonnes, whereas an unloaded 747 is about 180 tonnes. Remember it's a plane so big that they used to piggyback the space shuttle orbiters (which are not small) on it.
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Re:British Airways announces immediate retirement of 747 fleet
by BurningFrog on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:24PM
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Sounds like it could be done in 20 trips.
Also sounds like even if they give the plane away, just shipping it will be a ~7 digit expense.
I hereby withdraw my interest!