I’ve read online on how airliners store their fuel in the wings of the plane, and especially how it’s not in a tank, but its just inside the wings.
How exactly does this work? Does this mean the wings have to be completely air tight? If the inside of the wings are mostly structural elements, how do they deliver the fuel while making sure that there aren’t areas in the wing structure where the fuel gets trapped?
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I’m not sure how it is on all planes, but on the ones I work on there are “bladders” inside the wings. The actual fuel would corrode the metal, and when airline manufacturers tried anti-corrosion coatings… it would come off and gunk up engines so bad they would completely stop running. So, they went to bladders inside the wings.
Again though, this is only on planes I’ve worked on.
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