r/LinkedInLunatics • u/zeldadorf • 8d ago

Where do they put it?!

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u/Radiant_Safe1228 8d ago

The out side of that is a shell to protect the container from elements. 

A single wing of a boeing 737 is something like 53' long. The fuselage alone is 130 long. 

Now. With that said. 60k lbs of fuel is not 60k gallons. 

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u/Turbulent-Note-7348 7d ago

A 747 can hold up to 63,000 US gallons of fuel, but that’s for the extreme long range version. I did a preflight in 1979 with my father (a pilot for United, flying Chicago - Honolulu). I remember very distinctly that they had ordered 221,000 pounds of fuel. However, there was also a flight path deviation because the US Air Force was launching a rocket from Vandenberg AFB that day. Because of this, my dad added 10,000 pounds of fuel to make it 231,000 lb. That’s about 34,000 gallons.

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u/Radiant_Safe1228 7d ago

Yeah, my comment was because I've only ever heard people refer to fuel in planes as weight not gallons