The net assessment of the efficiency of a jet engine is the measurement of its rate of fuel consumption per unit of thrust generated (e.g., in terms of pounds, or kilograms, per hour of fuel consumed per pounds, or kilograms, of thrust generated).
On a no-wind day, the Eclipse can fly two passengers and luggage more than 1,200 nautical miles nonstop and still have an hour of fuel reserve.
"Less than two hours of fuel left," one of the pilots wrote in his mission diary.
We were able to temporarily resume carrying fuel for an hour, which means we have about 4-5 hofrs ofueleleftft on the roof.
The Super Constellation carried nine hours of fuel for the 1600 mile, 8-hour flight.
The Post has a good map showing the possible new range of the search: four hours could have taken the plane twenty-four hundred miles away, but it had seven hours' worth of fuel, so maybe it was four thousand miles; Flight 370 could, by that measure, have made it to Somalia.
The plane was carrying more than two hours' worth of fuel, the crew said.
Solar Impulse in numbers: Solar cells: 17,248, all built into the wing Batteries: 4, made of lithium-ion Wingspan: 72 meters (236 feet), wider than a Boeing 747 Weight: 5,070-lb, about the weight of a car Speed: 25 knots, or 28 mph, is the best speed according to the pilots Naps: 12 for every 24 hours Gallons of fuel: 0 Will it work?
Northrop Grumman's RQ-4 Global Hawk HALE just completed a 33.1-hour unmanned flight over the weekend at Edwards Air Force Base in Rosamond, CA. The High-Altitude Long-Endurance aircraft set an endurance record with the flight that reached upwards of 60,000 feet and when it landed still had two hours worth of fuel remaining.
The recently decommissioned USS Independence, at its top speed of 25 knots per hour, consumed 134 barrels of fuel an hour, or close to 5,600 gallons an hour.
"Our PI has found out that the pilot asked for two hours of extra fuel".
