Aviation Tonnage?

[born_2_fly]

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

[DaveSims]

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.

[elite marksman]

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).

[born_2_fly]

LOL....  ;D

Thanks for the info davysims  ;)