KR> RE: on a construction note...

2009-06-11 Thread Larry&Sallie Flesner
At 01:30 PM 6/11/2009, you wrote: >I think a large main tank is better that wing tanks. There is less total >weight involved and no need for a fuel pump which can fail. Use a lowered >vent system instead of a vented gas cap incase the plane is ever upside down >in a field. >-Joe +++

KR> RE: on a construction note..

2009-06-11 Thread Larry&Sallie Flesner
At 03:27 PM 6/11/2009, you wrote: >with my luck, the first time I mounted the gas tanks with no way to get >to them easily, the things would leak like a sieve, regardless of how >much I tested them before. >Glenn Martin + My left wing tank di

KR> RE: on a construction note...(Fastener correction)

2009-06-11 Thread Glenn Martin
Pardon my error, but It was not the Dzus fastener I was thinking of , but more a machine screw / nutplate and collar assembly that I remember being used on the F4C, but it's been LONG time since I was on the flightline at Edwards AFB, so its hard to recall exactly. I'll keep looking for the co

KR> RE: on a construction note...

2009-06-11 Thread Joe Beyer
I think a large main tank is better that wing tanks. There is less total weight involved and no need for a fuel pump which can fail. Use a lowered vent system instead of a vented gas cap incase the plane is ever upside down in a field. -Joe Scappoose Ore. > > With enough time having passed sin