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Walter_Middie Walter_Middie is offline
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The 747 is approaching 1,000,000 pounds (fully loaded). The max thrust per engine is getting up to about 65,000 lbs - with 4 engines that's only 260,000 lbs of thrust total - or about 1/4 of the weight. I can't imagine what the A380 weighs.
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