wilyflier:
Quote: " The uplift was mostly in the CTW tank with the wing tanks topped off".
This could not be the case. The aircraft would have arrived with, at a guess, 15000kgs (total) in the wings, assuming that there was no tankering. During refuelling the wing tanks have to be completely full before any fuel goes in to the centre tank. As the total wing tank capacity is about 58,000kgs, about 21500 kgs would have been put into each wing tank. The aircraft left with 79000kgs onboard, so about 21000kgs must have gone into the centre tank. In other words roughly the same amount of fuel was uplifted into each tank.
Last edited by 777fly; 4th Mar 2008 at 13:08.
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