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Old 24th Nov 2012, 13:52
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pigboat
 
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p1fel all I got was the dreaded red X.

That sure wasn't a whole lot of fuel, after 4 hours you must have been looking for a place to land. The F model of the F-27 could carry tons of fuel. Standard with full outboard tanks was 9200 lbs, and depending on how many cells in the wing center section could run as high as 14,000 lbs. In addition, there was a mod, ECP245 if memory serves, that added a bladder tank in each nacelle giving a total of 15,000 lbs of fuel. With that fuel you could carry the three crew and their baggage and that was it. I only know of two machines with this mod, ours and another that was flown by a company in Corsica.
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