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From: spirn@hplabsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Question about weight
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Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 12:54:27 EST
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Question: Do airliners have a device in their landing gear
to measure weight?

The Lockheed L-1011 has exactly such a device which measures
both weight and balance, by measuring the load on each gear.
This is according to an article on the L-1011 by TWA Captain
Barry Schiff, which appeared in AOPA Pilot a year or two ago.
This is apparently a unique feature of this aircraft.

But once when I was I passenger on an L-1011, I visited the
cockpit prior to takeoff, and asked the crew about this device.
They said they kept it turned off because it was unreliable.

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