Fuel consumptions of some airbus jet aircrafts?

Question

Hi everybody,

I saw a table ina scientific article about the fuel consumptions of some arcrafts. I upload the page to the following adress:

http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pagesfromsdarticleyj0.jpg

I cant be sure about some values:

for ex.

for a A340-600, takeoff consumption is given as 8248 kg while cruise is 9494 kg. Is really takeoff fuel consumption high so much ?

Thank you...

p.s. if there are some airliner pilots, I would like to contact they for scientific [e-mail]

Answer 1

You might get some info here;

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums...