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Old 23rd Mar 2016, 14:48
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On the Vulcan the normal fuel uplift was full except when the calculated fuel burn on a short sortie would have given a landing weight above normal maximum. Typically air tests or displays would be fuelled to minimums for the sortie.

I suspect you are really looking for short leg comparison. For the short hop UK-Malta, once flown in under 2 hours, we still fuelled to max.

However I know an ex-RAF nav on Britannias with Britannia quit as all he did was fuel economics - minimum sector fuel uplift with expensive fuel - maximum cheap fuel uplift compensure with cost of carriage etc.
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