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Wings can easily take up 20-30% of total plane weight. Then there's a whole flight electronics and hydraulics, other interior (like ceiling, A/C), APU, tail, la
by innocenat 8y ago
Wings can easily take up 20-30% of total plane weight. Then there's a whole flight electronics and hydraulics, other interior (like ceiling, A/C), APU, tail, landing gears, etc.
- dmurray 8y agoSo wings could be as much as 14,000 kg (7 times the weight of the fuselage) and all those other bits total 14,000 together? I'm on a plane now and it's still hard to believe that each wing (without the engine) could be 3 times the weight of the body of the plane. But I guess it must be true. Thanks for the colour.