Fuel tank

Details Fuel tank Fuel tank

1977-12-22

1979-10-30

Shoap, Allan N.

Aeronautics and astronautics

Aircraft structure

Fuel supply

220 89A, 220435, 220469, 220900, B64D 3708, B65D 2504, B65D 2518

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041725735

ABSTRACT:
An external, aircraft fuel tank constructed to be crashworthy or to withstand a crash from flight without rupturing the outer, rigid walls thereof. The fuel tank includes bulkheads arranged in the tank adjacent to but spaced from the end sections and defined to be yieldably responsive to fluid pressures above normal operating pressures for dissipating the kinetic energy of the fluid without rupturing the outer, rigid walls of the tank.

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patent: 2514888 (1950-07-01), McFarland
patent: 2611512 (1952-09-01), Fashay
patent: 2621719 (1952-12-01), Eaton et al.
patent: 2623721 (1952-12-01), Harrington
patent: 3506224 (1970-04-01), Harr et al.
patent: 3779420 (1973-12-01), Knaus

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