PlaneRange: How Far Can Any Plane Fly?
The Question Have you ever been on a long-haul flight and wondered: Exactly how far can this plane fly? Are we pushing its maximum limits, or is this a typical route? What if every single seat was full, or half the plane was empty? I love thinking about this stuff. I’ll spot a 787 on the tarmac and immediately start calculating where it could go nonstop from my local airport. The problem is, the existing tools for visualizing this were boring, clunky, and mostly built for commercial pilots or aircraft buyers. They locked down the data, only featured aircraft I didn’t care about, and often felt highly inaccurate. ...