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Friday, October 26, 2007 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

Do airplanes make you fart more? What happened to the dog hair on my suitcase? The pilot lets us in on readers' probing questions.
By Patrick Smith

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  • Friday, October 26, 2007 07:20 AM

    I'd like to know...

    ... the answer to the one about what percentage of fuel is used for take-off. It is probably un-answerable as asked, but if formulated as liters or gallons/min for different parts of a typical flight, maybe?

    Fuel-economy in general is an interesting topic. More on that, please. Tell us stuff we didn't even know to ask about!

    —Tona Aspsusa Read Tona Aspsusa's other letters

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