X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from fed1rmmtao105.cox.net ([68.230.241.41] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.9) with ESMTP id 2092345 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:55:19 -0400 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=68.230.241.41; envelope-from=dale.r@cox.net Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao105.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070608235441.FVWV9600.fed1rmmtao105.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net> for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 19:54:41 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([72.223.48.245]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id 9Buh1X0045HQYSo0000000; Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:54:41 -0400 Message-ID: <4669EC36.2080107@cox.net> Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:54:30 -0700 From: Dale Rogers Reply-To: dale.r@cox.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Slightly OT - shuttle fuel burn Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm watching a live telecast of the shuttle launch. The commentator mentioned that the engines are burning 11,000 lbs. of fuel per second. My first thought was "will I ever burn that much airplane fuel in the rest of my lifetime?" Surprisingly, the answer should be "yes". That's about 230-300 hours of flying. I wonder if I have enough time left to burn as much as the first 10 seconds ... Dale R. COZY MkIV #1254 Ch's 5, 9, 16 & 23 in progress