Did he crash or was he shot down?

Eichhörnchen · 04-19-18, 02:51 PM

I've just done a fag-packet calculation... assuming my idea that he didn't know how to switch from the now empty fuel tank no.1

Tank no.1 (in the wing) held about 7200lbs of fuel which, divided by 6, = 1200 gallons. This would give a range of 705.88 miles (empty cargo) or 324.32 miles (full load) working on the info I found online, which quotes 1.7 gal pm and 3.7 gal pm respectively. Well we don't know at all from the article how the aircraft was loaded, but the distance to where the wreckage was found, looking at their map, is a little over 300 miles...... he maybe just ran out of gas

04-19-18, 02:51 PM	#10
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,408 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I've just done a fag-packet calculation... assuming my idea that he didn't know how to switch from the now empty fuel tank no.1 Tank no.1 (in the wing) held about 7200lbs of fuel which, divided by 6, = 1200 gallons. This would give a range of 705.88 miles (empty cargo) or 324.32 miles (full load) working on the info I found online, which quotes 1.7 gal pm and 3.7 gal pm respectively. Well we don't know at all from the article how the aircraft was loaded, but the distance to where the wreckage was found, looking at their map, is a little over 300 miles...... he maybe just ran out of gas __________________ Last edited by Eichhörnchen; 04-19-18 at 03:41 PM.