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Volume 43, Issue 3
1 March 1971
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| March 01 1971

Fuel Management for Concorde: A brief account of the fuel system and the fuel pumps developed for the aircraft

H.G. Turner, B.Sc.,(Tech.), C.Eng., F.I.Mech.E.
H.G. Turner, B.Sc.,(Tech.), C.Eng., F.I.Mech.E.
Projects Manager, Mechanical Systems Div., Plessey Dynamics Group
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1971
Aircraft Engineering (1971) 43 (3): 36–39.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb034746

THE complete Concorde fuel system, part of which is described below, has been designed by the British Aircraft Corporation in conjunction with Aerospatiale of France. Plessey Dynamics Group's contribution has been to design and develop the several types of fuel pump to meet the very exacting requirements of the B.A.C. specifications.

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