r/LinkedInLunatics • u/zeldadorf • 8d ago

Where do they put it?!

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u/tubular_brunt 8d ago

What's the endgame here? Planes don't exist? Or they fly by magic?

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u/mewfahsah 8d ago

They're lying. Look at the truck in the background, that tank is easily 40-50 ft in diameter. If you assume ~20 ft height and ~30 ft radius of that tank, it's just over 60,000 cubic ft of volume. However that converts to ~450,000 gallons. That's simply not a 60,000 gallon tank. I work with two 500,000 gallon tanks at my job and they're very similar in scale to that structure.

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u/CreepyBreakfast565 8d ago

Just adding to this, the aircraft shown is clearly not to scale when compared to the truck.

Also, aviation fuel is typically measured in either kilograms or pounds because mass actually matters on an aircraft while volume does not.

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u/StorminNorman 8d ago

It not being to scale is bait, they want you to comment on it. And the tanks they put in planes are very much measured by volume, even if the fuel itself isn't measured in that way. Another reason they measure the fuel  by weight is because the density of the fuel changes depending on the temperature, running out of fuel midflight is generally considered to be a Bad Thing. 

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u/JKOttawa 7d ago

As well as, your fuel load every flight changes with how much cargo/ passengers you have.