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At 10:12 AM 10/26/00 -0700, Warren D Hampton wrote: >Using the outside sink as a support. > Anybody who can come up with an affordable idea is welcome. I don't think that there is any one airplane which MORE needs the benefit of the sort of fuel-cell technology that race-drivers have had at their disposal for years and years. We all know that we Ercoupers 'lead with our gas tanks' in more ways than one. To me, the most logical fuel system would be to retain a small header tank as a fuel cell (maybe 3 gallons). You know, enough to preserve your options should the fuel pump say 'sayonara baby.' But small enough to let you get a normal set of instruments in the panel and still have room to work. And then to retain the wing-tanks as wing-skins and to make a space for race-car technology fuel cells. Perhaps with the OUTBOARD end of the old tank deliberately weakened so that any rupture would blow fuel out to the wings rather than into the cockpit. Such an arrangement might cost a couple of gallons of total fuel capacity, but for most of us the stock 24 gallons is really more than we ever get near using in any case (remember, the first planes only had ONE wing tank) as we can't fill up with fuel and people and our one-pilot endurance is about two or two-and-a-half hours. Greg __________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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