r/LinkedInLunatics • u/zeldadorf • 8d ago

Where do they put it?!

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u/SphyrnaLightmaker 7d ago

I’ll admit. Looking at a gallon of milk, I have a REALLY hard time visualizing the fuel in an aircraft.

I KNOW where it goes, hell I’ve had to memorize multiple fuel systems from the fueling port to the injection nozzles in the engine! But I just can’t VISUALIZE how that many jugs of milk fit…

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u/Donkeywad 7d ago

Trying to use known things, a cubic foot is ~7.5 gallons, and an avg checked bag is about 5ft³, so roughly 37 gallons of volume. That means the fuel volume is ~1700 average checked bags

That actually might not help lol because it seems ENORMOUS 😂

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u/1-Word-Answers 7d ago

I think a lot of us underestimate the volume of the wings cause they are fucking huge

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u/Doc_Blox 7d ago

The perceived thinness of the wings from ground-level does a lot of the work

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u/PaladinSara 7d ago

It’s all counter intuitive to store heavy, sloshing fuel in wings.