Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site heurikon.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!uwvax!heurikon!jeff From: jeff@heurikon.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Airplanes gain weight Message-ID: <239@heurikon.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Feb-84 21:50:50 EST Article-I.D.: heurikon.239 Posted: Sat Feb 18 21:50:50 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Feb-84 08:17:16 EST References: <202@heurikon.UUCP> <560@pyuxa.UUCP> <908@ihuxl.UUCP>, <640@ihuxp.UUCP> Organization: Heurikon Corp., Madison WI Lines: 35 > I would venture to guess that you could drop every cigarette ever > smoked in said same 747 into the cargo hold and it still wouldn't > add 2000 pounds of weight to the aircraft. > > I agree smoking coats interior vehicle surfaces but 2000 pounds of > added weight is hard to swallow. (Your choice of the word "swallow" certainly is appropriate!) Pretend you've been hired by Boeing to paint the inside of a 747. Think about how much surface area there is in a 747. Think about how many gallons of paint it would take to cover that surface area . Don't forget to do both sides of all interior surfaces plus the inside surface of the skin. You can paint as thinly as you like, but paint *everything*, even the reading lamps. Think about how much a gallon of paint weighs. And, oh yes, you have to carry the paint yourself. I guess you've never painted a house? Lugging the paint from your car to the ladder will convince you that 200 pounds/year isn't unreasonable. > Smoking is permitted in my car............and plane. You're really not doing anybody any favors there. I assume you're a smoker. I bet your car stinks, and the plane, too. Your house surely smells. But you wouldn't notice because you're used to it. Your friends do, I bet, but keep silent. I do not mean this to sound like a personal attack. It isn't. The fact is, people who smoke *smell* as do their offices, homes and cars. Too bad they don't know it. -- /"""\ Jeffrey Mattox, Heurikon Corp, Madison, WI |O.O| {harpo, hao, philabs}!seismo!uwvax!heurikon!jeff (news & mail) \_=_/ ihnp4!heurikon!jeff (mail - fast)