Belly tank has many benefits such as ease of repair and opportunity to jettison if on board fire occurs and simply fly without it being mounted for short local hops. How many in wing fuel leaks have you heard of on a KR-2 ? and how many was an easy fast simple fix ? Don N40WS
On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 6:15 PM Flesner <fles...@frontier.com> wrote: > On 11/18/2021 8:16 PM, John Gotschall wrote: > > BTW my current factory built airplane has no header, will quit upon pump > > fail and without warning. Somehow that's ok with the FAA. > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > John, > > I'm curious as to what factory built airplane you have that has no > gravity feed and a "single" fuel pump system with no backup. Many > "factory" built airplanes with no gravity feed use an engine driven pump > with an electric pump backup. > > I switch tanks and pumps every 15 to 20 minutes (only at altitude) and > if a pump quits it's engine out in about 10 seconds. I use both for > T.O. and climb and both for letdown and landing. If one of my pumps > quits at altitude I have backup in about 2 seconds. Those Facut pumps > see to be quite reliable. 800 hours of random use with no problem. > > Someone mentioned the lack of talk about a "belly tank". I'm guessing > the reason is why add a big draggy belly tank when you can carry fuel > internal in the wing with no additional drag other than the lift > generated to carry the load. > > Larry Flesner > ________________________________ > -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > -Change list delivery options at > https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board > -Search recent KRnet Archives at > https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ > -Search <https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/-Search> > John Bouyea's decades of archive at > https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/ ________________________________ -Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html -Change list delivery options at https://list.krnet.org/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ Affinity List Info Board -Search recent KRnet Archives at https://list.krnet.org/empathy/list/krnet.list.krnet.org/ -Search John Bouyea's decades of archive at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/
