On Mon, 10 May 2004 05:08:51 -0600, Scott Ferrin
wrote:

On Mon, 10 May 2004 20:16:55 +1000, John Cook
wrote:

On 09 May 2004 17:00:58 GMT, (IanDTurner) wrote:

Anyone know a figure as to max payload weight?

It can carry 7500Kg + of weapons etc, the Max takeoff weight is
23,000Kg or more..

Cheers


John Cook

23,000kg seems a bit low. The latest F-16s top out hgiher than that
and they're a smaller aircraft. I guess if they say 23k then it's
23k. I'd have guessed something more like 26k or 27k,

There really funny like that, they said for years the internal fuel
load was 4000Kg, turns out its 4996Kg (at least on the development
aircraft), The data they usually give is sometimes a bit dated, or
they could just be a bit secretive.

The strange thing is the fuel loads and other parameters should be
reasonally easy for an aircraft design team to work out.

The other factor is the Typhoon is just entering service, it needs
to complete its basic testing and evaluation first, perhaps then the
overload conditions could be explored later on.

Look at the Raptor, they said for ages the MTOW was 50000lbs, if you
added the weights bandied around then the fuel load was a lot smaller
than a few 'commentators' were estimating.......

It under quoting rife from aircraft manufacturers???

Cheers



John Cook

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