belly tank

A belly tank was added to extend its range.

The water or retardant is carried in three center-line belly tanks.

This time he aimed at the Skyraiders' external belly tank.

Its belly tank, torn loose, skidded forward, spewing flaming fuel.

He could smell rocket fuel, and he knelt to peer up at the belly tank section.

It swung over him and he stared stupidly upward at the patched belly tank wondering who had done that work.

In this variant, the agricultural application liquid is carried within the short wings, rather than in a belly tank.

The principal differences involved fitting two fuselage belly tanks bringing the standard fuel capacity to 201 Imp.

It wasn't a squirt gun; it was a belly tank pressurized with freon.

"Your landing was rather rough: one of your float-skids is damaged and you ruptured the belly tank.

The centerline station, station three, contained a two-thousand-pound belly tank, as usual.

Because of its small size (168-gallon), Burke then switched to the larger 305-gallon belly tank used on a P38 Lightning.

They would be moored and at ten o'clock the large belly tanks would be filled, he wanted to be there for that.

A hundred and twenty in the wing tanks and another sixty there in the streamlined belly tank between the floats beneath us.

Long-range Zerstörer, modified C series airframes with Dackelbauch belly tank.

The 500 models can be equipped with a Bambi bucket for use in firefighting, while the Bell 205s have 375 gallon belly tanks already installed.

It's subsonic, shoots only smart weapons, has limited maneuverability and carries a nonstealthy belly tank for training purposes that can't be carried in combat.

French and Belgian authorities sometimes claim that 'catwalk tanks' and 'belly tanks' fail this qualification.

Hang bombs and a belly tank and the RCS rises, though it's still down about sixty percent from an A-6 loaded for bear.

The National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates plane crashes, has recommended loading a plane's belly tank with fuel even if it is not needed for the flight.

The senior chief moved up beside Jake and peered through the gap between an F-14 mainmount and A-6 belly tank that Jake was using.

In aviation, a drop tank (external tank, wing tank, or belly tank) is used to describe auxiliary fuel tanks externally carried by aircraft.

For example, immediately after the explosion, Boeing officials said the mixture in the belly tank could not be explosive under normal circumstances because the fuel would stay in liquid form.

Cargo included medical supplies and whole blood, and materiel such as gasoline, helmets, bayonets, belly tanks, ammunition, clothing, Signal Corps equipment, and even telephone poles.

He crouched down under a plane and peered forward between the mainmounts and belly tanks, trying to see the men around the helicopters in the glare of the island floods.