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It's not really that linear because taking off and landing both consume significant "flat" amounts of fuel.

• reitzensteinm 7y ago
  Also, fuel consumption is exponential with distance, for reasons similar to the rocket requestion. Wikipedia has a cool graph: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#/media/File%3A777-224_fuel_burn-range.png https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#/me...
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  • titzer 7y ago
    That graph is not 0-based, so it is very misleading.
    • simonh 7y ago
      Indeed. 7500nm generates only about 10% more CO2 than 2500nm. Not exactly what I was expecting from 'exponential'.