Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft structure – Fuel supply
Patent
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
Patent
active
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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Baker Silveus M.
Moore Wesley D.
DaRin Edward J.
Royal Industries, Inc.
Shoap Allan N.
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