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Old 7th May 2009, 06:54
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Pontius Navigator
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Mostafa, you forgot the ancilliary costs too.

The weight of the bang seat, instruments, cabling, coffee holders, ingress/egress, extra canopy etc. Call it an extra 300-400kg at least.

The fuel tank and feeds would reduce the gain but not too much.

One neat solution, Swordfish-style, would be to retain the cockpit space but denuded of all the ancilliaries, and put a fuel tank there. If, later on, you wanted extra space for a passenger or whatever, then you could remove the tank.

Didn't the Saab Lansen have the capability of carrying two passengers by replacing the bang seat in a ferry mode?
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