News Boeing Jets to Fly Shorter Distances Due to Passengers' Obesity

[Soheil_Esy]

09.08.2015

Boeing changed the technical specifications of its aircraft. From now on, they will fly shorter distances than before, German media reported.

The aircraft are still the same, but they will have a significantly shorter flying range, German media reported. The new technical specifications of the Boing jets were revealed by aerotelegraph.com.

One of the major reasons for the changes is the changing nature of the human condition. According to the website, passengers are getting bigger and constitute an additional burden for the aircraft.

At the same time, the machines have also become heavier due to a number of interior changes. For example, there are new premium seats that can be converted into beds and weigh more than the old ones. Moreover, additional seats were installed in Boeing 777 and 787 aircraft to increase the maximum number of passengers that can be carried during one flight.

These factors may affect the performance of the aircraft. Therefore, Boeing has adapted new technical specifications for its aircraft and reduced its flying range.

For instance, the range of Boing 787-9 was reduced by 665 nautical miles or 1,230 kilometers. Instead of previous the 8,300 nautical miles it now can fly a maximum of 7,635 nautical miles or 14,140 km. The aircraft’s equipment has not changed, Boeing stated.

http://sputniknews.com/art_living/20150809/1025562712.html

 

[boogabooga]

I worry more about the smaller commuter planes.

I see it being possible that modern passenger weight may be much higher than anticipated when some of the older planes were designed. Does any airline actually weigh passengers?

I seem to remember hearing about a commuter crashes caused by overloading/CoG issues.

 

[N_Molson]

Insane.

 

[Urwumpe]

Sputnik News is no German media now... so I am a bit surprised by this news. :rofl:

But yes, it makes sense, since the average weight of the passenger in the previous standards had been way lower than the true average weight of a human today.

After all, regardless of obesity, we have grown taller and heavier as well on the average.

From May 2003 already:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/13/us/weight-estimates-on-air-passengers-will-be-increased.html

2009, EASA Study:

http://www.easa.europa.eu/system/files/dfu/Weight Survey R20090095 Final.pdf

 

[Matias Saibene]

The future is now...
:uhh:

 

[C3PO]

I seem to remember hearing about a commuter crashes caused by overloading/CoG issues.

You're probably thinking of

 

[GLS]

Does any airline actually weigh passengers?

Don't know. But that could be solved by having a subway type gate somewhere on the passengers path to the aircraft, with a scale just before it. The passenger opens the gate with the ticket and gets weigh in, allowing a computer to add that mass to the seat location. :tiphat:
But soon we would have news like "Obese passenger gets stuck in weigh gate" :uhh:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Don't know. But that could be solved by having a subway type gate somewhere on the passengers path to the aircraft, with a scale just before it. The passenger opens the gate with the ticket and gets weigh in, allowing a computer to add that mass to the seat location. :tiphat:
But soon we would have news like "Obese passenger gets stuck in weigh gate" :uhh:

Y'know, that'd be a better option than charging you on your bag weights. After all, the above-decks load is often 3-4 times heavier than the one in the baggage bins below decks.

 

[ijuin]

If they start charging passengers based on body weight then there will soon be screams of discrimination against heavy people (and against tall people, and against men, and against anybody who as a demographic group weighs more than the median person).

 

[Dantassii]

If I recall my Aerospace Engineering design criteria, when those passenger jets were originally designed, they were designed for an average passenger (male, female, and child averaged out) of 150 pounds. I believe that measuring fuel usage plus some other studies showing the average weight of people and I think they are now using an average weight of 180 pounds per person, or something like that.

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