Not necessarily. Remember back when the Trident was in production, go-juice was just a few cents a gallon and was a much smaller percentage of hourly costs then it was today. Ah, I long for the good ol' days when airplanes didn't have the same boring look like they do today. David R > In a message dated 7/1/2003 3:01:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > katana.flyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > << The Trident 3 even had a special boost engine > above number 2 just for takeoff. >> > > Making it even more inefficient