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Old Aug 13, 2023 | 10:15 am
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Originally Posted by jsloan
For one thing, the only reason that there is a “standard passenger weight” is that they weigh people occasionally to find out what the “standard” weight is.
This makes sense. I suppose I am kind of surprised that there are no other sources for this data besides weighing random people at the airport. Unless it is assumed that the weight of general population is not representative of the flying population?
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