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February 22nd 04, 02:08 AM
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Cost of gas for that: Probably $50,000
Awesome! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" 
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February 22nd 04, 02:51 AM
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Cost of gas for that: Probably $50,000
Awesome! -- Jay Honeck Compute the cost.. normal low level operations at about 540Knts runs appx 36,000pph (that's pounds per hour fuel flow for those not used to jet engines), I used to plan at 38,000pph average to allow slower times and high speed dashes. One gallon of JP8 weighs appx 6.5 pounds (rounded), that's 5540 gallons per hour (rounded), at a buckfifty / gal that's $8,310 per hour (rounded). The apx 5 minute run, ok, I'll give him 10 minutes on the run, $1385. But that's at 540Knt or about .88M depending on altitude, rack that up to Full Afterburner and greater than 1.0M and the fuel flow meter is off the scale. But rack the pph up to 100,000pph and the math still works out to less than $4000 for fuel. Now, add in the cost of crew training, aircraft maintenance and investment in the airframe. And it does start adding up. BT
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