Thread: riddle me this
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Old 04-11-2008, 05:59 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RBower View Post
yep this is definitely a Riddle question



The airplane was built very nose heavy though, its a big 8 up 95% of the time, kind of inefficient. I wonder how much gas that costs over the life of the plane
It's 8 up for takeoff the majority of the time, but in flight it's significantly lower...0-4 from what I can recall seeing.

8 up on the takeoff roll doesn't burn, but what...maybe a half a pound of gas...ouch
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