Questions tagged [payload]

What determines the maximum payload weight, as seen in the horizontal line of a payload-range diagram? I understand that $ OEW + W_{fuel} + W_{payload} \leq MTOW$ but what's stopping me from just putting in 10lbs of fuel, enough to taxi across the…

I was on a Delta flight out of DTW and they told people (about 30 times at the gate and in the plane) that the flight is payload optimized and people needed to make sure they didn't put anything but a small carry on in the bin. Why would this…