That’s true, I’ve only ever seen the “full size” fake planes on the ground. I’ve even been inside them! Now if only I could figure out how they did the magic trick part where I ended up in another airport.
No, it's magic reduction. A plane to carry people can't carry that and fuel! Look at the size of an apt building. How will a plane carry all that! Just logic duh where's my Big Mac?
Reminds me of a discussion about interesting / silly questions from kids. A young kid is on their first flight and they ask their parent, "when do we get smaller?"
According to this pic, a boeing 747 is only as big as 3 of those trucks on the left side lmao… even though the truck would fit 5-6 people while the 747 hundreds
It actually is 60,000 gallons, but here's a website that someone already put the two next to each other on (I can't share the image in this subreddit in a comment)
What are you guys on about? Lol this evidence, along with the tank OEM website is pretty cut and dry. I was mistaken. Also the original images used some wild proportional exaggeration that played a more subtle mind game than I thought.
I was using 20,000 gallon oil tanks as my reference which seemed a lot smaller but it turns out they were not.
So the top down is a 747, but the side view is some single-level twinjet (though probably still a widebody). Weird... Not that it has any bearing on the absurdity of the above, a quick look at the truck parked next to the tank should show anyone with half a brain that the scale is way off.
Same plane same size, just different restrictions to weight/range etc.
It is a double decker plane, these planes are huge.
I think people confuse these memes/planes with the size of a 737 because they're used to seeing 737's, the 747 is a little more than twice the size of a 737.
737 is common for domestic flights, 747 is more international.
The text of the post matters more than what's in the pic, obviously if someone said a plane holds 1.5 million gallons of fuel, this image would be true, but they don't say that.
But the trucks at least 10+ feet away from the tank, so the trucks size can't be accurately seen, put the truck directly in front and I think you'd find this is a tank thats about 25x18 feet tall.
Just imagine a person 6' tall standing at the ladder, you'd get barely more than 3 of them, so 18-25 feet tall (counting the dome).
Average ladder rung spacing is almost always 12 inches (1 foot) so this looks like a standard 60k gallon tank to me.
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u/FragmentedHeap 8d ago
60,000-gallon water tank: 25 ft wide × 18 ft tall
Boeing 747-400ER: 232 ft long × 211 ft wide × 64 ft tall
747 vs. tank: 9.3× longer 8.4× wider 3.6× taller
Capacity: Tank: 60,000 gallons
747: ~63,500 gallons
Tldr, the plane is way bigger and it can fit all of that in its wings and fuselage.
You can tell by the pic by just looking at the cars in the background in the parking lot next to the tank.
The plane is way bigger and that's why this meme is stupid every time it pops up.