how would one find out how much full is needed to travel the world

fly around the world?

c'mon, don't be fuelish.
 
Cap'n Jack said:
Hmmm. This one is probably properly noted for lying. Another poster to PoA (long time poster) lies and no comments to their threads?
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aaww c'mon, who IS IT?!??! the suspense is keeeeling meeeeeeee!
 
Dream large! Look up Max Conrad's book about his circumnavigation in a single engine Piper Comanche.
 
It can be done in 9 days with just 1200 gallons of fuel.
 
48dodge said:
It can be done in 9 days with just 1200 gallons of fuel.
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Instead of asking how much fuel it would take, how about setting a record for the least amount of energy used in a circumnavigation? That sounds like an interesting challenge for the OP.
 
FormerHangie said:
Instead of asking how much fuel it would take, how about setting a record for the least amount of energy used in a circumnavigation? That sounds like an interesting challenge for the OP.
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I think Steve Fossett will have that record for the foreseeable future.
 
MAKG1 said:
For one circumnavigation? Almost every astronaut has used less. The ISS circumnavigates in 90 minutes with no fuel on almost all orbits.
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Yeah, but if you average it out with launch.:hairraise::rofl:
 
Hmmm, here's an interesting tid bit. Apollo 11 used 947,529 gallons of fuel and oxidizer to travel 828,743 nautical miles, that, 1.14 gallons per NM, not bad.
 
Henning said:
Hmmm, here's an interesting tid bit. Apollo 11 used 947,529 gallons of fuel and oxidizer to travel 828,743 nautical miles, that, 1.14 gallons per NM, not bad.
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Ahh, the joys of zero drag. I wonder what the MPG would be for Voyager, it's only gone 11 billion miles so far.
 
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