Grimbor Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 I just watched the first episode of this series on BBC2. Quite interesting. What does it take to get a million people and their luggage off the ground and up in the air? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07g70j1 http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/tv/city-the-sky Grim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caldrail Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Approximately three thousand four hundred airliners plus associated air and ground crews, airports to operate from with prepared runways, aprons, facilities, and land purchases, airport staff, legal standards and cooperation, air traffic control procedures and staff around the world to stop them bumping into each other, and according to Boeing's info, anything up to sixteen thousand seven hundred gallons of aviation fuel per mile travelled and the infrastructure and industrial base to supply, oh, and of course, the aviation companies that build the aeroplanes to begin with. And me too, for being nerdy enough to figure this out :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnuss Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 ...anything up to sixteen thousand seven hundred gallons of aviation fuel per mile travelled ... No aircraft will hold that much total, let alone per mile. Methinks you have some typos or something... Larry N. As Skylab would say: Remember: Aviation is NOT an exact Science! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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