Topic: Aircraft Refueling
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What are aircraft refuellers?
Aircraft built by the military to refuel other capable aircraft (other military craft basically) in midair. Read More »
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How are aircraft refueled?
Smaller aircraft simply have gas-caps on top of the wing. The caps are removed and fuel is poured straight into the fuel tanks. Most jets can be fueled in this manner as well, however jets often require much more fuel, and so most use whats... Read More »
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What is the circle of safety for driving when refueling an aircra...
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When the aeroplanes are charged after travelling in the air and contact with air particle the potential difference between it and the Earth is very high so electrons try to jump from the craft to the Earth to neutralize itself.
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Press Shift + F and a fuel truck will come. It depends on AI traffic. If you have a lot of AI airplanes on the airport and needed fuel, you might be waiting for a little while, but if you have little or no AI traffic, then you're number 1 f...
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50 feet with engines off.
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The LCC-airlines are trying to refuel in 25 minutes, and charter on 60 minutes. Remember that an aircraft also need catering, lavatory and water services, air conditioning ++, so the refueling takes as long time as the plane is on the groun...
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Answer The KC-135 has been in operation for 30 years, so the list would be numerous. I'm sure it can refuel any aircraft in the US Air Force's current inventory. I flew on a training mission and watched one refuel an FB-111.
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Not sure how the whole airplane/truck grounding would look like in a diagram, but I'm sure grounding is more effective when the ground power cable is connected, providing ground through it. Anyway yeah, a cable is reeled out of the truck an...
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The Rutan Voyager was the first aircraft to travel around the world without refueling. It began its record breaking flight on December 14, 1986 and landed 9 days later on December 23rd having covered 26,366 statute miles on 1150 gallons of ...
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