Weight and balance, ballast, trim when flying alone
Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Gig 601XL Builder wrote in news:13ouoa9j6fss5a5
@news.supernews.com:
Mxsmanic wrote:
Gig 601XL Builder writes:
Where would you place a fuel pump in a low wing plane with a tank in
each wing that would not suck air from the empty tank?
In a common sump that is lower than either tank.
sorry, won't work
Well, to be fair, it would work, but it would be pointless, complicated,
more dangerous, heavier and less reliable.
Just like Anthony!
Bertie
Unless the pump is also a gasolator it runs the chance of pumping as
much water as it does fuel.
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