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Blue_Tires

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16. Nowhere near that much flight time

Reply to Bandit (Reply #12)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 12:34 PM

Mar 2014

the fuel burn rate skyrockets at low altitude so the range is much, much shorter...

Nevermind the fact that one does not simply fly a 777 at night...at 1000 or so feet...and at Mach .80 and expect to live though it wihout being the greatest pilot who ever lived...

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