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From: deanp@hplsla.HP.COM (Dean Payne)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: reasons for fuel dumping [was: Re: shuttle landing sites]
Message-ID: <7080001@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Nov 88 18:14:28 GMT
References: <1914@eos.UUCP>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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>From: mplubrat@athena.mit.edu (Mark P. Lubratt)

>I believe I read an article that stated the 747-400 recently set
>a new gross weight record for takeoff somewhere in Montana.  The weight
>was on the order of 850,000 lbs.

Moses Lake, Washington, 892,450 lbs, according to Aviation Leak.