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Old March 28, 2012, 01:26 PM   #19
ScottRiqui
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Those things are an environmentalists worst nightmare---just another reason I love them
Aircraft carrier flight operations are another environmentalist nightmare. The maximum weight you can take off with is significantly higher than the maximum weight at which you can land, so if you don't burn enough fuel during the mission, you have to dump some before you can land back at the boat. On one deployment, I calculated that we dumped (on average) 1,000 pounds of fuel into the ocean at the end of each flight.
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