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Re:Boeing #12 by InclinedPlane on Thursday January 30, 2014 @11:13PM (#7155198)
Net? Probably nothing. Boeing has lots of test flights to do just to rack up hours of operation and so forth so a flight like this easily fits into their budget of flights they have to do anyway.
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Re:Boeing #12 by alexeisadeski3 on Thursday January 30, 2014 @11:38PM (#7155271)
Okay, so gross then?
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Re:Boeing #12 by recharge on Thursday January 30, 2014 @11:51PM (#7155325)
747-800 burns about 2,900 gal of fuel per hour at cruise altitude and speed. This was done at 12,000 feet which probably doubled the fuel consumption. Without accounting for takeoff/climb fuel, we're looking at around 32,000 gallons of jet fuel. Cheapest fuel BFI is 5.59/gal so a good estimate for the total bill would be $178,880.00.
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Re:Boeing #12 by bulte-rs on Friday January 31, 2014 @07:31AM (#7156334)
And you can almost double that number to take t/o and landing into account.
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Re:Boeing #12 by alexeisadeski3 on Friday January 31, 2014 @12:43AM (#7155496)
Thank you!
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Re:Boeing #12 by leoc on Friday January 31, 2014 @12:35AM (#7155467)
A very big number. :)
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