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keep_left

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13. Yeah, especially that little detail about MTOW. In recent...

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #2)

Wed May 21, 2025, 01:23 PM

May 2025

...times, the airlines and regulators already had to increase the average passenger weight used to make takeoff calculations. That happened, of course, due to the trend of increasingly zaftig Americans over the years.

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Trust me, psychopaths have more evil ideas than we can even imagine. Irish_Dem May 2025 #7

What they ultimately have in mind: sop May 2025 #8

I can't imagine the FAA would approve --- oh, wait. This is *Trump's* FAA. Ocelot II May 2025 #2

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No, they won't. MineralMan May 2025 #11

Oh, HELL no. tanyev May 2025 #12

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