Deepa Mohan wrote: > the Railways? Come to it, what is the system on aircraft? Not even the > all-detail Arthur Hailey has talked about this.... > This used to be one of those questions that popped up after a nice round of drinks with friends. Of course, every one got creative at that time. I think some people warily looked up whenever a flight was overhead too. :-)
Seriously, it's all collected during the flight and dumped, if I may use the expression, at the airport. If you carefully notice, two tubes get attached to the plane at the airport. One of them is for fuel. V