This little plane weighs less than a thousand pounds fully loaded, but it is powered by the 116-horsepower I Rhone engine.

A plane like that weighs forty or fifty tons and the crane they had just wasn't up to it.

The wings and fuselage were covered with dacron sailcloth and, empty, the plane only weighed 435 pounds.

The plane was 25 feet long and weighed 380 pounds.

According to international rules, to qualify as a model a plane must weigh less than 11 pounds - fuel included.

The more a plane weighs, the more fuel it must burn.

The opponents of nuclear power have argued that the plane in the Sandia test, an F-4 Phantom, weighs far less than a jumbo jet.

The plane, built of wood, weighed 200 tons and had a wingspan slightly longer than a football field.

Because the plane weighed only about 1,500 pounds, the Pentagon decided not to order an evacuation, as the plane would have done little damage to the building if it crashed there.

Stephens' plane weighed 961 pounds empty and had no throttle.