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=== Range === {{Main|Range (aircraft)}} The range that powered flight articles can achieve is ultimately limited by their drag, as well as how much energy they can store on board and how efficiently they can turn that energy into propulsion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://web.mit.edu/16.unified/www/FALL/thermodynamics/notes/node98.html|title = 13.3 Aircraft Range: The Breguet Range Equation}}</ref> For powered aircraft the useful energy is determined by their [[fuel fraction]]- what percentage of the takeoff weight is fuel, as well as the [[specific energy]] of the fuel used.
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