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An airliner's empty weight is at least half its take-off weight, and no flying design has ever come in below 47%.

Drawn from what Bjorn Fehrm said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

aviation Flying and the machines that do it: propulsion, airlines, runways, and what happened to Boeing.

What Bjorn Fehrm actually said

  1. Bjorn Fehrm Aeronautical engineer, former fighter pilot and airline…
    The model output, which uses data from 74 presently flying airliner variants, from short-haul Commuters to long haul Widebodies, made with aluminum or composites, shows that the OEW fraction (OEW divided by MTOW) never go below 47%.

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