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Aftermath of a B-25 Bomber flying into the Empire State Building, 1945 (i.redd.it)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

While you're right, the MTOW of a B-26 is around 17 tons, the 767 is 150-200 tons.

So there is a factor of around 10 between them, so if the 767 flies 3 times as fast - which it doesn't, the B-26 cruises at more than 0.35 Mach at close to sea level, and the 767 is not supersonic - that means that the factor from the speed can't be more than about 3 squared, so 9.

So the factors from the weight and the speed are roughly equal IMO.

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