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Howdy  :D

I was thinking the other day, when it comes to aircraft, what tonnage is used? I understand that the British Lon ton is usually used for liquid weights, for things such as fuel, however, is the Lon ton also used for the dead-weight of the aircraft? Or is the US short ton used? In which case, is the fuel weight then given in short tonnage as well? Or are they 2 separate calculations (this I doubt, but is is possible). Or, in a completely new twist, is the metric 'Tonne' used?

I hope that I was clear enough  ::)

Thanks!
Alex

As far as I know, and this is in the US, we use the American ton (2,000 pounds).  There was an accident with an airliner many many years ago that was caused by a confusion between American and metric measurements.  The aircraft took off with way too little fuel.

Yet another reason why we should all use metric...

Come on people! Converting 1m to mm (x1000), cm (x100) or km (/1000) is a hell of a lot easier than converting 1 ft to inches (x12), yards (/3), or miles (/5280).

LOL....  ;D

Thanks for the info davysims  ;)