Outboard tanks, tips or not, increase the structural ability of the wing
to handle sudden increases in lift. Tip tanks, if canted like the later
310's for instance, are thought to decrease tip drag.
The KR wing is strong enough that carrying fuel in the tips isn't
relevant for strength issues,
I sent this to the net a few days ago and it never came back, I'm sending it
again. Sorry if you get it twice.
Hey Guys, If your needing a flyin destination this weekend ? SERFI is this
weekend in Evergreen Al. A great place to be Saturday. Our Birmingham EAA
Chapter will be working it again th
Hey Guys,Today is the 6 year anniversary of the first flight of 357CJ with the
3100 corvair. I was hoping to get a morning flight in to celebrate but heavy
rain, strong winds, and ceilings lower than a snakes belly all went against it.
Anyway it has been some of the best 6 years of my life, I ha
Scott wrote:
I can tell you for a fact that a 60 lb imbalance between tanks with them
located at the inboard end of the wing panels is quite significant. I tested
that condition in my KR. I'd sure hate to have to try to land a KR with a 60
lb imbalance at the wing tips.
So I'll ask the questi
I can tell you for a fact that a 60 lb imbalance between tanks with them
located at the inboard end of the wing panels is quite significant. I tested
that condition in my KR. I'd sure hate to have to try to land a KR with a 60 lb
imbalance at the wing tips.
So I'll ask the question a bit diff
Jeff wrote:
"As Victor points out with the Cessna twin tip tanks, they may look cool,
but they come at a pretty high cost to safety. Carrying tip tanks gives you
the capability whether by accident or by mechanical failure to have the
lateral balance so far out that the plane becomes uncontrollab
. Creating conditions to get you an unrecoverable spin or an uncontrollable
wing heavy condition at landing speed are things that can get you killed.
Jeff Scott
Los Alamos, NM
Jeff is spot on here. Just think if they had only three gallons each and for
our purpose fuel weighs in at 6 LBS a gal
As Victor points out with the Cessna twin tip tanks, they may look cool, but
they come at a pretty high cost to safety. Carrying tip tanks gives you the
capability whether by accident or by mechanical failure to have the lateral
balance so far out that the plane becomes uncontrollable at slow sp
I have about 500 hours in Cessna 421's and 414's as well as a lot of time in
310's. In all of these there is a fuel pump in the aft end of the tank that
moves fuel from the front to the back of the tank where the pickups are. These
pumps run all the time. These are the main tanks on all of these
I liked the looks of tip tanks and have some
fake ones made them to go onto my wings.
Dave Mullins
Nashua, NH
Fred Johnson wrote:
> Rudi wrote:
>
> "Sakkie's plane with tip-tanks, ZS-UKU, is currently being restored after
> standing for many years, more information available here:
> http://www
Well actually Jeff, the current in the circuit stays the same. Refer
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/chpt_5/2.html
The brightness is a function of power (watts) which equals volts times amps.
Since amps remain the same, a resistor/rheostat drops the voltage across the
bulb thus dimming it.
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