Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxn!res From: res@ihuxn.UUCP (Rich Strebendt) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Airplanes gain weight Message-ID: <555@ihuxn.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 23:31:41 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxn.555 Posted: Sun Feb 19 23:31:41 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 09:00:33 EST References: <202@heurikon.UUCP> <560@pyuxa.UUCP> <908@ihuxl.UUCP> <7165@mgweed.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 17 With respect to the weight of the paint job on a jumbo jet: A short while ago (within ~6 months) I recall seeing a brief article that said that the paint job on a 747 weighs (after drying) either 7000 lbs, or 7 tons ... I have forgotten which. (Only a factor of two, either way!) Judging from my last flight on a commercial air liner, just the smoke in the air during that flight must have weighed an appreciable fraction of a ton! Had to send the clothes I was wearing to the dry cleaners to get rid of the stink before I could wear them again. I have no difficulty believing that an airliner could accumulate a ton of that crud over a period of years. Rich Strebendt ...!ihnp4!ihuxn!res