16. Weight Saving by Cleaning Aircraft

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Title16. Weight Saving by Cleaning Aircraft
Publication TypeConference Paper
Paper Number0016
Year of Publication1941
AuthorsSargent, R. E.
Paper Category26. WEIGHT GROWTH
ConferenceDinner Meeting of the Philadelphia Chapter, Society of Aeronautical Weights Engineers, December 12, 1941
Conference LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
PublisherSociety of Allied Weight Engineers, Inc.
Date Published12/12/41
Abstract

Tonight’s talk on Weight Saving by Cleaning Aircraft prompts only one question in my mind. Why should aircraft be cleaned? The answers are too numerous and for that reason we shall restrict them purely to their relationship to weight. To an outsider the commercial airlines are more weight conscious as they have determined the approximate value of their payload pound or its potential earning power for a period of a year to be $55 per ship.
They further estimate the average gross weight of a D. C. 3 is 24,000 pounds.

Empty 16,000 pounds
Useful Weight 8,000 pounds
Payload Weight 4,000 pounds

To better appreciate the value of their $55 pounds, subtract 50 pounds from their payload and then multiply it by 55; and you will readily see how fast $2,750.00 can be lost in revenue.

Pages48
Key Words26. Weight Growth
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