When is an aircraft overweight?
Please move if in the wrong forum.
Reading about the Enola Gay during it's bombing of Japan and was intrigued to read that at take off the B29 Enola Gay was 7 tons over weight.
I had always thought that the maximum weight of an aircraft was set in stone and an over weight aircraft was not going to fly very well if at all.
So when is an aircraft actually overweight and how overweight can an aircraft safely be?