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Old 23rd April 2008 | 00:04
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Since the early 80's airliners have been equipped with capacitance fuel quantity measuring systems that not only use 1960's technology compensated volumetric measurement, but the digital computer receives data from a densitometer that measures actual fuel density. The densitometers employ radio-active isotopes and require special handling procedures.
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