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Volume 45, Issue 5
1 May 1973
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| May 01 1973

Fuel system controls

GRAHAM MARRIETTE
Chief designer (accessories) Flight Refuelling Ltd.
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1973
Aircraft Engineering (1973) 45 (5): 37–40.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb035025

CONCORDE'S OLYMPUS ENGINES have a hearty appetite for Kerosene. A fuel load of some 25,000 imp gal enables it to operate on transatlantic and other route stages with adequate diversion margins. As can be seen from the diagram, virtually the whole of the wing area comprises fuel tank cells to accommodate this massive load, which weighs almost 200,0001b.

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