02-01-2020, 05:35 AM | #16 | ||
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Iceland*
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Long-Range Transport
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That would be before anyone around Kessler was as nervous about modern aircraft failing and he'd have bought the aircraft based on performance, measured against the cost of acquiring it and operating it. If they were available at similar prices around the fall of the Soviet Union, I get the feeling that the Il-76 is a much more capable plane and while a fully-loaded C-130 (it's possible, I guess that the C-100-30 requires less runway) could theoretically land at Douglas-Charles Airport in Dominica, it still requires more than three times the runway length that an Il-76TD requires. Actually, before the mid-2000s extension to the runway at Douglas-Charles, a C-130 would be operating outside of safety margins if they landed there fully loaded. So the Il-76TD, acquired at the fall of the Soviet Union, seems like a logical possession. Ironically, of course, now in 2018, some of his employees, like the PCs, will probably consider that old plane far too modern to ever get into. Edit: The Il-76TD costs about $8,500 per hour to operate, with 55% of that being the 7.5 tons of jet fuel it burns per hour. This is a lot, obviously, but note that it can fly from Scholes International Airport in Galveston to Douglas-Charles Airport on Dominica in about five hours, which means that if it should ever prove necessary, the entire crew of the Penemue, including the 'Night Riders' and some additional support personnel, can be airlifted between those two main theatres of Kessler's influence for about $42,500, which is competitive with the cost of buying everyone economy class flight tickets on a commercial flight and will take significantly less time.
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Za uspiekh nashevo beznadiozhnovo diela! Last edited by Icelander; 02-06-2020 at 09:47 AM. |
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