Voyager’s fuel reserve low
NZPA-AP Mojave, California Voyager returned after circling the world with much less fuel in reserve than its pilots and mission control believed.
The aircraft, the first to fly around the world non-stop without refuelling, had only 64 litres of fuel left, and the pilots would have had to spend a half-hour rearranging fuel lines to get at 40 of the litres, officials disclosed.
A spokesman, Peter Riva, said that when
Voyager landed on Wednesday morning, there were only 18 litres of fuel in the “feeder” tank that directly supplies the engines. The plane was getting 64km a gallon at that point and could have flown another 237 km on the feeder tank supply. Mr Riva said the plane had used up more fuel because the front engine could not be shut down until after three days. He said fuel may have leaked from wing tanks, and the plane may have been struck by lightning.
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