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From: jeff@heurikon.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Airplanes gain weight
Message-ID: <202@heurikon.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 03:11:17 EST
Article-I.D.: heurikon.202
Posted: Thu Feb  9 03:11:17 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 04:29:38 EST
Organization: Heurikon Corp., Madison WI
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Did you know that they weigh jumbo jets from time to time?
Over the years they notice that the weight of an empty
plane slowly increases.  In ten years, a 747 can "gain"
over 2,000 pounds.  This was a big mystery until they
discovered that the extra weight was from the residue
left on all the airplane's surfaces from cigarette smoke!
Think about the surface area of all the panels, subpanels,
etc.  It all adds up.  And that stuff costs the airline
(correction: it costs *us*) about $55,000 per year in
extra fuel. 
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