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Empty weight: 880 lb (399 kg) Max takeoff weight: 1,370 lb (621 kg) Fuel capacity: Main tank total capacity: 16.9 US gal (14 imp gal; 64 L) Optional auxiliary tank total capacity: 10.9 US gal (9 imp gal; 41 L) Powerplant: 1 × Lycoming O-320-A2B or -A2C 4-cylinder air-cooled horizontally-opposed piston engine, 124 hp (92 kW)
A dripstick is a thin hollow tube installed vertically in the bottoms of fuel tanks of many large aircraft, used to check fuel levels.To read a dripstick, it is withdrawn from the lower surface of the wing.
When the tank is empty and the least current is flowing, the needle points to "E" indicating an empty tank; some vehicles use the indicators "1" (for full) and "0" (for empty) or "R" (for reserve) instead. [4] The digital fuel gauge in a 2018 Mazda 3 showing a nearly-empty tank along with a distance to empty display.
British Airways Flight 38 crash-landed at London Heathrow in 2008 after its fuel lines became clogged with ice crystals.. In an internal combustion engine, fuel starvation is the failure of the fuel system to supply sufficient fuel to allow the engine to run properly, for example due to blockage, vapor lock, contamination by water, malfunction of the fuel pump or incorrect operation, leading ...
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Cleo Trumbo, wife of novelist Dalton Trumbo, smokes with a holder during House Un-American Activities Committee hearings in 1947. A cigarette holder is a fashion accessory, a slender tube in which a cigarette is held for smoking.
A floatstick is a device to measure fuel levels in modern large aircraft.It consists of a closed tube rising from the bottom of the fuel tank. Surrounding the tube is a ring-shaped float, and inside it is a graduated rod indicating fuel capacity.
Drop tank storage aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) The primary disadvantage with drop tanks is that they impose a drag penalty on the aircraft. External fuel tanks will also increase the moment of inertia, thereby reducing roll rates for air maneuvers. Some of the drop tank's fuel is used to overcome the added drag and weight of the tank.