"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
02/13/2015 at 11:52 • Filed to: planelopnik
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
02/13/2015 at 11:52 • Filed to: planelopnik | 5
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It's for sale. !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . However the real point of interest is the cost to fuel the things. FA did the comparison however it's the time you can enjoy such things that's the real cost. Look at a figure called the SFC. It's 0.77. That's the rated "mpg", or, specific fuel consumption of the engines.
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Thrust x 0.77 = pounds of fuel per hour burned. At 11,000 pounds thrust maximum per engine without the afterburners, takeoff will cost you roughly 1,700 pounds of fuel for the first 5 minutes of flight. That's about $1,250 just to takeoff in fuel cost alone, just to get to a decent altitude to fly around for a bit end enjoy all the things the air frame can do. Locally. Do you want to make a noise show on takeoff? Do you want that punch in the kidneys of afterburner? Well let's do a 1 minute burn of them and then resume a normal takeoff. That SFC number swells to 1.85, so that extra minute of fun just added another $500 to your takeoff... just for that one minute of afterburner.
Let's compare the after burning takeoff charge at $5 per gallon of Jet-A fuel. This thing consumes $844 per minute of gas on afterburner. That $500 million dollar powerball ticket that was just won would have paid out $1,000 per hour for 26 years after taxes if you took the annuity payment. So, only if you had an income of $170,000 per week would you make more money per minute than this thing would burn in gas on full afterburner. That might put a frame of reference on enjoying this because that's just the price of GAS to fly it. How often would you actually be able to fill it up and fly? How many hours per year would you actually have this out of the hangar to fly? Overall, it's listed to cost $5,500 per hour to fly this plane with fuel burn and maintenance, etc.
Flying it fifty hours per year would cost $300,000 of your disposable income. Disposable . That's one hour a week, or 4 hours a month.
GhostZ
> Grindintosecond
02/13/2015 at 12:06 |
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Or, another way to look at it, at a 10% hedge fund return on a $4m investment, you're giving up $700,000 a year for a total of 48 hours of flying.
WhiskeyGolf
> Grindintosecond
02/13/2015 at 13:25 |
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Yeah, but would you, if you could?
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Grindintosecond
> WhiskeyGolf
02/13/2015 at 13:45 |
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Possibly, depending on what other options for other super exclusive airplanes to buy. This is of course assuming we're buying this plane to fly. There's museum planes that would cost not much at all. But, to keep it in flying condition is quite a bit more like this one. I would have to debate buying this or maybe a Harrier, or perhaps....
user314
> Grindintosecond
02/13/2015 at 13:51 |
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What are you taking about? The MiG-29 flies on vodka and the good will of The People, like all Soviet airplanes.
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WhiskeyGolf
> Grindintosecond
02/13/2015 at 14:03 |
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The EAA magazine had an article about the only civilian Harrier flying airshows and said it burns 1 gal of fuel every second, when in a hover.
augodao
> Grindintosecond
10/31/2018 at 20:56 |
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Very cool! Thx for share!