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  2. Aircraft fuel system - Wikipedia

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    Single-engine light aircraft fuel tanks are usually in the wings, but some aircraft have a small "header tank" between the normal fuel tank and the engine, to facilitate reliable fuel flow to the engine. On many small or very old single-engine header tanks (and even main tanks) are often mounted above and/or immediately behind the engine.

  3. Royal Ordnance L9 - Wikipedia

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    Royal Ordnance L9 is a British short-barrelled 165 mm (6.5 in) gun used for combat engineering, particularly the demolition of defences.. Initially called Ordnance BL 6.5" Mk I, it was later renamed 165mm L9 Demolition Gun.

  4. Drop tank - Wikipedia

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    A 2,300-litre (600 US gal) Sargent Fletcher drop tank being moved across the flight deck of an aircraft carrier Bangladesh Air Force Chengdu F-7 carries a drop tank at under-fuselage hardpoint. In aviation, a drop tank (external tank, wing tank or belly tank) is used to describe auxiliary fuel tanks externally carried by aircraft. A drop tank ...

  5. Boiler - Wikipedia

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    Trycock: a type of valve that is often used to manually check a liquid level in a tank. Most commonly found on a water boiler. Flash tank: High-pressure blowdown enters this vessel where the steam can 'flash' safely and be used in a low-pressure system or be vented to atmosphere while the ambient pressure blowdown flows to drain.

  6. Franklin O-335 - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... 6A4-165 165 hp (123 kW) at 2,800 rpm 6A4-200 200 hp (149 kW) at 3,100 rpm 6AG-335

  7. 165th Airlift Squadron - Wikipedia

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    Being derived from the F-101C tactical fighter, the RF-101H differed from the RF-101G in having a strengthened airframe designed to allow maneuvers at up to 7.33 G. and having different fuel pumps and fuel feed and control systems, increasing its maximum available afterburner time from six minutes to 15. 165th TRS RF-4C 64-1075 in the late 1980s

  8. Vacuum truck - Wikipedia

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    A vacuum truck, vacuum tanker, vactor truck, vactor, vac-con truck, vac-con is a tank truck that has a pump and a tank. The pump is designed to pneumatically suck liquids, sludges, slurries, or the like from a location (often underground) into the tank of the truck. The objective is to enable transport of the liquid material via road to another ...

  9. Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker - Wikipedia

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    The KC-135Q variant was modified to carry JP-7 fuel necessary for the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird by separating the JP-7 from the KC-135's own fuel supply (the body tanks carrying JP-7, and the wing tanks carrying JP-4 or JP-8). The tanker also had special fuel systems for moving the different fuels between different tanks. [15]