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0 points747facts12y ago0 comments

I decided to fact check you. 57,285 U.S. gallons in a fully loaded 747. Jet-A is 6.84 lb/US gal. That's about 196 tons. Looks like stage 1 of the Falcon 9 is estimated to use 239 tons of RP-1 and stage 2 49 tons.

http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/747family/pf/pf_400_...

http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/falcon9.html

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simonh12y ago

Cool, so they're well within an order of magnitude of each other.

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0 points747facts12y ago0 comments

I decided to fact check you. 57,285 U.S. gallons in a fully loaded 747. Jet-A is 6.84 lb/US gal. That's about 196 tons. Looks like stage 1 of the Falcon 9 is estimated to use 239 tons of RP-1 and stage 2 49 tons.

http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/747family/pf/pf_400_...

http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/falcon9.html

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simonh12y ago

Cool, so they're well within an order of magnitude of each other.

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