Fuck the blyats.
The plane can’t land without those tires, so I guess that effectively grounds it.
That how I initially read it, but just in case anyone else didn’t get it: they are referring to a shipment of tires.
Can’t take off either, so Poland is really doing them a favour.
They could put it on a big ballista
5 metric tons? What’s that, a set for one plane?
A tire for a 737 is about 110 kg. So, that’d be 45 tires.
The 787 has 8 main tires and 2 nose tires. The main tires are 218 lbs (about 100kg) and the nose tires are 114 lbs (about 50kg). So a set is roughly 1970 lbs/900kg, pretty close to a short ton. 5 metric tonnes would be about 5.6 sets of 787 tires.
How many starts and landing single tire can hold? quick google said 300-450? How big % of total needs that interrupt was?
