u/Infamous_Telephone55

Cabin pressure is a very funny BBC Radio Comedy series (and yes that is Benedict Cumberbatch). The basic premise is that in a divorce, Carolyn gets her ex-husband's business jet and runs a charter airline. The ex keeps wanting to buy it back as we find out in the last episode (and stop reading here if you don't want spoilers....)

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That the wiring of the plane is made of solid gold.

Now the plane is fictional (a Lockheed McDonnell 3-12) but it's close to the size of a McDonnell 320. With the plane has 16 seats.

So the math questions....

How much gold would be in the plane if all the wiring was gold wire instead of copper?

What would it be worth? (As the ex husband character offered 250,000 UK Pounds for it at one point). As the Gold would have likely been in the United Kingdom, he would have to turned gold bars into wire, coated the wire with some plastic suitable for an airline and have paid some people to rewire the entire plane do the job would it have been worth it?

How much extra fuel as a percentage would it take to fly a plane with gold wiring? If it could have flown at all?

I'm curious as to who you think it looks like, and whether you see the same person that I do.

I always follow Arthur's advice and put something in every drawer when staying in a hotel to make it feel like home.

Also 2 toast (not pictured) and glass of orange juice (not pictured -£1.50 extra).