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To: The Free Engineer

“TWO TONS OF BATTERIES AND COOLING EQUIPMENT”

Actually, the batteries weigh the same as the weight of the jet fuel no longer required.


15 posted on 06/04/2020 9:54:59 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator
Actually, the batteries weigh the same as the weight of the jet fuel no longer required

Two tons of batteries or two tons of fuel, which will take you further.

21 posted on 06/04/2020 10:02:10 AM PDT by SKI NOW
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To: TexasGator

“Actually, the batteries weigh the same as the weight of the jet fuel no longer required.”

Why do you guys have to lie about it?

https://www.aopa.org/go-fly/aircraft-and-ownership/aircraft-fact-sheets/cessna-208b-grand-caravan


35 posted on 06/04/2020 10:16:21 AM PDT by BobL
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Uh, two tons is still 4000 lbs in Texas, right? A full load of fuel in the Caravan is roughly 1900 lbs. Like the man said, how far can you go on 1900 lbs (335 gallons) of fuel vs two tons of batteries? About 1000 nm vs 100nm.


47 posted on 06/04/2020 10:31:12 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: TexasGator

“Actually, the batteries weigh the same as the weight of the jet fuel no longer required.”

And unlike the jet fuel which is burned off, the whole weight of the batteries is there from start to finish.
So ends my extremely limited knowledge of the subject.


57 posted on 06/04/2020 10:44:55 AM PDT by oldvirginian (The average "progressive" makes Jethro Bodean look like Albert Einstein)
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To: TexasGator

Prop planes use JET fuel?
Learn something every day!


83 posted on 06/04/2020 11:23:18 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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How much does the jet fuel weigh as it is expended? How much do the batteries weigh as they are discharged?

A plane flies further and higher as it gets lighter by burning fuel. The weight stays the same with batteries.


115 posted on 06/05/2020 12:58:10 AM PDT by DMZFrank
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