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Boeing Deliveries To Eupore

Nasmal From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 218 posts, RR: 0
Posted (12 years 10 months 2 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 1143 times:

How does boeing deliver its small planes like the 717,737,727 to eupore over the atlantic since there range is not that far.

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DeltaAir From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1094 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (12 years 10 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1070 times:

When the aircraft are delivered there is ususally very little if any payload, therefore the range is greatly increased. Also, there is Greenland and Canada along the way to stop to get fuel.

Ctbarnes From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 3491 posts, RR: 52
Reply 2, posted (12 years 10 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1067 times:

With no passengers or cargo to carry, the range on these smaller aircraft increases considerably. Temporary fuel tanks (I think) can also be fitted to increase range if needed. Piece of cake!

Charles

The customer isn't a moron, she is your wife -David Ogilvy

Lowfareair From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (12 years 10 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1066 times:

Simple, they have stops over the atlantic/pacific.

DesertJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 7673 posts, RR: 19
Reply 4, posted (12 years 10 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1064 times:

Getting across the Atlantic is pretty easy... you have places like St. Johns and Gander Newfoundland and Keflavik Iceland to make fuel stops and then it is less than 1500nm to most points in Europe.

Getting across the pacific is the hard part.

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Sammyk From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 1686 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (12 years 10 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1063 times:

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What a long trip it must have been delivering 717s to Australia!

Sammy

Scand From Sweden, joined Apr 2000, 34 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (12 years 10 months 2 weeks 5 days 5 hours ago) and read 1049 times:

SAS flew all of its 737-600/700
NON-STOP from SEA to ARN.
Total airborne time between 8-10 hours.
The 737-800 had to make a fuel stop in KEF/iceland due to its shorter range. If I am not wrong one of the first flights did set the airborne time world record(?) for the 737-600 with a airborne time of 10h and 4min.
Scand

777x From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (12 years 10 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1026 times:

As others have pointed out - the quoted range is based on a 'typical' configuration and a 'typical' load factor. Since fuel burn increases with the weight carried, an empty plane can fly MUCH further than the quoted range of the aircraft.

Also, sometimes other tricks are used, such as additional fuel tanks in the cargo hold or using special high density fuel.

And if none of the above work, there are plenty of place to stop in both the atlantic and the pacific.

Regards
777x

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