The aircraft's take-off weight is not reduced. Yet to drop the load (water/retardant) that the aircraft is carrying, a significant amount of fuel must first be burned off or dumped. Why?
I suspect, as does SparWeb it seems, that this may have something to do with the CG shift that occurs during...
Good discussion points so far - and thanks for that report link.
But I'm still left wondering how dropping the water/retardant with less fuel in the wings will result in less load on the aircraft structure than dropping the same amount of water/retardant with more fuel in the wings (which would...
Would anyone here know a good reason why a maximum drop weight limitation would be imposed on an aircraft modified for firefighting role (by means of a tank installation under the fuselage belly)?
--> The aircraft max drop weight limitation, imposed for some reason by the tank installer, is...
Does anyone know of a good website that compares different kinds of specs?
I have lots of Boeing reference material from the FSB Aircraft Structural Repair Course, but because I'm not working on Boeing aircraft at the moment, I would like to know equivalent mil-specs for all the listed Boeing...
Astroclone mentioned earlier a textbook called "Practical Stress Analysis for Design Engineers". It's an excellent book to help you understand loading conditions that design engineers have to consider, as well as the type of structure which is typically used to resolve certain loading...
