DROPPABLE FUEL TANKS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B00980R000200170057-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 2, 2002
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: January 5, 1965
• Content Type: MF

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5 January 1965
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Materiel Division, OSA
SUBJECT: Droppable Fuel Tanks
REFERENCE: Wing Pylon Drop Tank Installation
Proposal; dated 30 October 1964
(ECP LAC 174-1)
1. It is not clear to personnel of this Division
whether referenced proposal includes provisions for
cockpit indication that fuel in the droppable tanks
has been expended. Because safe return of the aircraft
might depend on transfer of all fuel from the tanks
prior to their being jettisoned, we believe it manda-
tory that some means of determining fuel quantity be
included. Part A of the proposal makes reference to
"two pressure switches to provide cockpit indication",
but this appears to provide an indication only of tank
pressurization and not of fuel quantity.
2. Request you ensure that installation of droppable
fuel tanks includes some means of indicating to the pilot
the amount of fuel remaining in the droppable tanks, or
that all fuel has been expended.
Lt. Colonel USAF
C/IDEA/OSA
C/IDEA/OSA/I
Distribution:
#1 - C/MD/OSA
#2 - D/FA/OSA
#3 - IDEA/OSA
#4 - RB/OSA
#5 - Holdback
amb (5 Jan 65)
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