How much fuel do you prefer to carry?

B A R R Y wrote in news:NPGnk.35455$ZE5.11635
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Rocky Stevens wrote:

Never thought of it that way. I ride a motorcycle, and motorcycles
have a "reserve" tank (not really a separate tank) that you can switch
to when you "run out" of gas

There are a few old planes with the same setup.

I think some Taylorcrafts had a reserve tank.


Bikes don't have a resere tank, they have a stand pipe that takes the
normal supply from an inch or two up in the tank. When that runs dry, you
selct reserve and you can get at all the fuel.
No airplane ever had that kind of instalation
The "reserve" in the T-craft was another tank that fed into the main in the
nose. Lots of airplanes of the period have this setup.


Bertie