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Back to Our Problem!Our critical aircraft flying (B777-200 HGW option) would fly 4,200nm with full passengers.• From the P-R diagram read <strong>of</strong>f the DTW as ~230,000 kg.• OEW + PYL = 165,827 kg.• The amount <strong>of</strong> fuel carried for the trip would be:FW = DTW - OEW - PYLFW = 64,173 kg.Since the P-R diagram tells us the DTW we could even skip the fuelcomputation and use DTW in our runway length analysis directly(see following pages).Virginia Tech - <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Transportation</strong> <strong>Systems</strong> Laboratory 95

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