Fuel dumping (or a fuel jettison) is a procedure used by aircraft in certain emergency situations before a return to the airport shortly after takeoff...
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Sea by the Soviet Union. Dumped at 20 sites from 1959 to 1992, total of 222,000 m3 including reactors and spent fuel. Dumping occurred from 1948 to 1982...
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they continued to dump fuel at low altitude when they weren't in a fuel-dumping area, and didn't advise ATC that they were dumping fuel". Abend noted that...
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collecting waste Fuel dumping, used to lighten the aircraft's weight and flammability in certain emergency situations Equivalent dumping coefficient, used...
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Jettison (aviation) (section Fuel jettison)
from the aircraft by use of explosive bolts or a mechanism. Fuel jettisoning or fuel dumping is an emergency procedure used by crews to reduce the weight...
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as fuel is burned during the flight). The center of gravity may change over the duration of the flight as the aircraft's weight changes due to fuel burn...
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Delta jet fuel-dumping on schoolkids". CTVNews. Retrieved 2024-03-10. Abend, Les (2020-01-22). "Pilot: The mystery of Delta flight's fuel dump". CNN. Retrieved...
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makes this a popular display for airshows, or as a finale to fireworks. Fuel dumping is used primarily to reduce the weight of an aircraft to avoid a heavy...
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with fuel, was too heavy to land safely in the limited space of the harbor, so the crew elected to dump fuel before landing. While fuel dumping was in...
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functioning. The emergency fuel dumping pumps were also malfunctioning; sometimes they stopped functioning at all, only to resume dumping fuel minutes later. At...
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767-300s are not designed for fuel dumping, it had to stay in a single-engine holding pattern for over 4 hours to burn fuel and achieve its maximum landing...
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destroyed the aircraft. The DC-7 contained fuel-dumping facilities. A hazard of fuel dumping is ignition of the fuel, and precautions are taken to eliminate...
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performance cars. It works by retarding the ignition timing and adding extra fuel (and sometimes air) to balance an inherent loss in combustion efficiency...
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Rouge On October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 passenger aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed in a wooded area near Gillsburg, Mississippi, United States....
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Several events, such as the shooting of a local civilian and rumors of fuel dumping, had led to strained relations with some of the local population. Powers...
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likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Al-Suwaira fuel dump explosion" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2023)...
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Express Flight 14 China Southern Flight 3456 Lufthansa Cargo Flight 8460 Fuel dumping Missed approach Touch-and-go landing "Ballooning During Roundout". avstop...
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Jeep problem (section Continuous amount of fuel)
jeep's fuel consumption is assumed to be constant). At any point in a trip the jeep may leave any amount of fuel that it is carrying at a fuel dump, or may...
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takeoff. The pilot elected to dump fuel before making an emergency landing, but the aircraft exploded while fuel dumping was in progress. All seven crew...
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disposal Oil and fuel dumping Nuclear wastes Direct discharge of industrial wastes to the soil Discharge of sewage Landfill and illegal dumping Coal ash Electronic...
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experimental logs, power traces, and 33 lessons learned. Between shutdown and fuel dumping, the operating personnel were required to wear gas masks because of the...
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without dumping upon smelling smoke. However, he does not fault them for abiding by the guidelines and checklists at the time, which involved a fuel dump and...
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operation. An aircraft's gross weight will decrease during a flight due to fuel and oil consumption. An aircraft's gross weight may also vary during a flight...
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on rails within the Talon that tie into the C-130's own pressurized fuel dumping pumps and require no further equipment. A major modification between...
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Nuclear fuel is material used in nuclear power stations to produce heat to power turbines. Heat is created when nuclear fuel undergoes nuclear fission...
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today is responsible for over 20 million liters of unnecessarily-burned fuel, dumping over 2 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, and for 200 million...
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Radioactive waste (redirect from Nuclear dumping)
Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, (the London Dumping Convention) states: ""Sea" means all marine waters...
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improvement in fuel efficiency. 737s are not equipped with fuel dump systems. The original design was too small to require this, and adding a fuel dump system...
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the U.S. Emergency – emergency procedures and guidelines for hijacks, fuel dumping, search and rescue, etc. Carrying "current aeronautical charts and publications...
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battlefield commission in May 1940. He was wounded while blowing up a fuel dump and captured by the Germans during the 1940 Battle of France. He escaped...
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