Jet engine (for passenger planes) hoax discussion
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One would have to know nothing about aviation to believe this post. Having fueled both military and civilian aircraft, there is more to the fuel system than the wings. For example, on a Boeing 707, the center tank within the fuselage is the largest of all tanks in the aircraft. Wing tanks also carry fuel, but significantly lower volumes than internal tanks within the fuselage.
Fuel is also part of the center-of-gravity measurement for how an aircraft is loaded to maintain "balance" both on ground and airborne. There are limits to all things and fuel is critical to aircraft movement on ground, especially its distribution within the aircrafts different tanks.
This post is bunk.
You must be completely unaware that EVERY tank on EVERY military aircraft is used to take fuel samples every day. The fuel is analyzed for contaminants, but most importantly checked for water because it can foul an engine's ability to perform. Real fuel ran down my real arms when I drained a quart of real fuel into a real jar for every real fuel tank.
I have also been internal to an aircraft's fuel cell and sopped up remaining fuel with real rags and used real fans to dry/evaporate the tank for maintenance to fix a real leak.
I have also witnessed a fuel dump on the ground where the wing fuel dump was activated inadvertently creating a massive real fuel spill.
My experience is first hand, direct maintenance over more than 10 years of time. Yours?