"Mildred Toede" wrote in message
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> "Calif Bill" wrote in message
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> > "fungus" wrote in message
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> > > Curtis CCR wrote:
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> > > >>No, it's true. The "cargo" versions of planes still
> > > >>take off when they're stuffed to the gills with
> > > >>stuff. They just need an awful lot more fuel to
> > > >>do so.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Cargo verisons of aircraft are still quite limited by *weight*.
> > >
> > > Well obviously there's a hard physical limit. You
> > > can't fill a 747 with lead bricks and expect it to
> > > take off.
> > >
> > > OTOH, I never heard of a passenger plane being grounded
> > > because there was too much weight on board.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > fungus
> > >
> > > "I was right in the middle of a reptile zoo, and
> > > somebody was giving booze to these goddamn things!"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > No, they pay passengers to take another flight. Denver in the Summer
is
> > very weight conscious. Flights between Lima, Peru and Cusco only fly in
the
> > morning. High altitude and warm weather. Reduced lift on the wings.
>
> Personally, I say we could solve this problem if we could find a way
> to efficiently burn fat people to create fuel. In fact this would
> solve other problems, perhaps most importantly it would free us from
> our dependance on OPEC. And when we ran out of fat people, we could
> start burning those annoying .ing native american indians.
And we could burn foul fingered posters. In Egypt in earlier times, they
used mummies for firing the boilers in steam locomotives.
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