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Wing tips are often used by aircraft designers to mount navigation lights, anti-collision strobe lights, landing lights, handholds, and identification markings. Wing tip tanks can act as a winglet and distribute weight more evenly across the wing spar.
Drop tanks, external tanks, wing tanks, pylon tanks or belly tanks are all terms used to describe auxiliary externally mounted fuel tanks. Drop tanks are generally expendable and often jettisonable. External tanks are commonplace on modern military aircraft and occasionally found in civilian ones, although the latter are less likely to be ...
The tip tanks provide additional fuel capacity to enable longer times aloft. A jet pump installed in each tip tank transfers fuel into the wing tanks. Fuel can also flow via the flapper check valves into the wing tanks, but the lower half of the fuel in the tip tanks must be transferred with the jet pump. Most Learjet 25 aircraft were fitted ...
Zone 500 Left Wing 561:Left Removable Wing Tip 562:Left Outboard Wing Leading Edge (Inc Slats 1 -4 WS 332.5 - WS 790) 563:Left Inbd Wing Leading Edge (Inc L.D Flaps 1 -3 WBL 70.597 - WS 332.5) 571:Left Fuel Vent Surge Tank And Fuel Vent Outlet (Left WS 716.5 - Removable Wing Tip) 572:Tank No 1 ( Left WS 224.5 - Left WS 715.5) 573:Left Integral ...
The non-planar wing tip is often swept back like a raked wingtip and may also be combined with a winglet. A winglet is also a special case of a non-planar wingtip. [citation needed] Aircraft designers employed mostly planar wing designs with simple dihedral after World War II, prior to the introduction of winglets.
L-1049C with an increased MTOW and four R-3350 972-TC-18DA-3 engines. The options of tip tanks and weather radar were available. L-1049G/01 Version built for Varig with a strengthened wing, increased MTOW and R-3350 988-TC-18EA-3 engines. L-1049H Convertible passenger/freight version of the L-1049G. 53 built. L-1049H/01
Each wing tank often has its own electric boost fuel pump, and each engine has its own mechanical pump, replicating the fuel system described above for the single engine. In case of single-engine operation, there is often a method incorporated to "cross-feed" the engine (left tank feeding right engine, or vice versa).
Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1969–70 General characteristics Crew: 2 Length: 10.65 m (34 ft 11 in) Wingspan: 10.85 m (35 ft 7 in) with tip-tanks Height: 3.72 m (12 ft 2 in) Wing area: 19.35 m 2 (208.3 sq ft) Airfoil: root: NACA 64A114 ; tip: NACA 64A212 Gross weight: 2,685 kg (5,919 lb) Max takeoff weight: 4,577 kg (10,091 lb) full internal fuel, wing-tip and underwing tanks ...