I had to look it up, but there are about 7,000 lbs of fuel in each wing in a 737. There is more fuel in fuselage tanks.
7000 lbs per wing equals about 3175 liters or 838 gallons stored in each wing for a 737, which is about 1,680 gallons.
http://simviation.com/rinfo737.htm
But this site here says that the 737 holds 6,875 gallons or 26,025 liters of fuel max. cap.
That means each wing is weighted down by 23,000 pounds at takeoff, not 7,000 pounds. (in jet fuel gallons to pounds). And again, the specs on a A380 AirBus for fuel are 320,000 liters, which in water (not fuel weight) equals 705,500 lbs in water weight.
(Others calculated in excess of half a million pounds of fuel.)
Where did you get your specs on the 737? It holds over 3400 gallons in each wing, not just 838 gallons that you stated...
Anyway, thanks for the info. It's a LOT Of jet fuel.
I am not an expert on civilian aviation (I used to be a navy jet engine mechanic) that is for sure, but I looked at a couple of websites to get some rough numbers. Wikipedia is fine for this kind of thing, IMO (NOT for ANYTHING political!) so you can see it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737 to see the specs.
JP4 jet fuel weighs about 6.5 lbs per gallon (all of them weigh just about that as a rough estimate) and there are 1,100 gallons in each wing tank, so that is roughly 7,000 lbs of fuel in each wing.
The total internal fuel capacity of a 737 is around 45,000 lbs (in my day we always referred, and probably still do, to fuel capacity in lbs of fuel. By comparison, the plane I worked on carried something like 10,000 lbs of fuel internally IIRC (a single engine attack aircraft, the A7E Corsair)
LOL, by the way, don’t compare an A380 to a Boeing 737, about all they have in common is that they both have wings, carry passengers, and fly through the air! One is the largest commercial airliner ever made, and the other is one of the standard regular size workhorses, very small in comparison.