Some info. (from open sources) for you:
I’m putting together a big table of tanker figures, and while the Boeing airplanes are generally easy, I have some gaps for the Airbus tankers and the VC10s.
What sort of HDUs do they use on:
The German A310 MRTTs, the Canadian MRTTs, the Aussie A330s and the proposed FSTA aircraft??
‘HDU’ normally refers to centreline hose drum units, such as the FRL Mk 17 fitted to VC10K and TriStar. Wing systems are usually termed ‘pods’.
The A310MRTT and CC150T Polaris use FRL 907E pods. A330MRTT and FSTA will also use FRL 900-series pods.
How many of the FSTA aircraft will have a centreline HDU, and what sort will it be?
Anyone’s guess – but probably ‘about half’? Best guess for the centreline HDU is the FRL Mk 40 HDU, currently under development.
What sort of underwing HDUs will they use on the A400M?
FRL 900-series.
When the ex-BA 767s were being proposed for FSTA were they going to be 2 point or 3 point tankers, and what sort of HDUs were going to be used? How many pallets and how many pax could they have carried?
Some 2-point and some 3-point. If I recall correctly, Boeing planned to use the Smiths’ pod for the 2-point aircraft; not sure about the 3-point. As for ‘pallets’, it depends on your definition....
How many pallets and how many pax will the FSTA A330 carry?
The maximum cargo volume available in the A330 is 4803 ft³, using 26 LD3 cargo containers, the most common container in use world-wide, plus 695 ft³ bulk cargo in the rear of the hold whereas the B767 offers a maximum volume of 4030 ft³, some 16% less. However, to achieve this the B767 needs to use 30 smaller LD2 containers plus 430 ft³ bulk cargo. Unlike the A330, the B767cannot carry LD3 containers in side-by-side pairs.
The A330 has a baseline seat fit of 293 seats, 30 B-class at 40” pitch and 263 Y-class at 32” pitch. ba operates the B767 in a variety of seating configurations; typically in ‘Longhaul Regional’ configuration it is fitted with 32 B-class ‘Club World’ seats at 43” pitch and 183 Y-class ‘World Traveller’ seats at 32” pitch. However, other B767-300ER configurations include 24 B-class seats at 38” pitch and 245 Y-class at 32” pitch, a total of 269 seats. The A330 cabin interior is considerably more spacious than that of the B767, allowing standard Y-class seats to be fitted in an 8 abreast configuration with 2 x 19” aisles, apart from the rearmost 5 rows which are fitted 7 abreast. The narrower cabin of the B767 means that seats and aisles of the same dimensions may only be fitted in 7 abreast configuration.
What are the MTOWs for all VC10 versions, and the total fuel capacity figures for the K2, assuming that 70.3, 80 and 68 tonnes are right for the C1K, K3 and K4?
CIK: MTOW 146.5, max fuel 70.3
K2: MTOW 142.4, max fuel 74.0 (if it would trim!)
K3: MTOW (AAR role) 151.9, max fuel 80.0
K4: MTOW: 151.9, max fuel 70.3
How many pallets can a C1K carry, and how many pax can the non-passenger tankers (K2, 3, 4) carry?
C1K can carry 5 NATO pallets in the full freight role, if I recall correctly. K2 had 18 seats in the cabin, K3 has 17, K4 has 30.