A 300-gallon fuel tank fell from an aircraft on Tuesday and landed in a Florida neighborhood, the Eglin Air Force Base announced on X. It happened around 11 a.m., the base said. The fuel tank landed ...

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Aircraft fuel tanks are susceptible to structural failures such as cracks, age-related leaks, corrosion from trapped moisture, and deformation due to blocked vents creating a vacuum. Fuel delivery ...

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Fill up your car at the gas station and you're buying it by the gallon. Refuel your Boeing 747, and you're measuring fuel ...

EGLIN AFB, Fla. (WFLA)— A 300-gallon fuel tank dropped from a 96th Test Wing F-16 aircraft in a neighborhood on Tuesday, the Eglin Air Force Base announced. According to a post on X formerly known as ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday that it wants U.S. airlines to modify the fuel tanks on Boeing and Airbus aircraft to safeguard against the possibility of ...

When it comes time to refuel military aircraft, it's not as simple as taxiing to the local gas station and topping off the tank. Military vehicles don't run on gasoline, and even Humvees, for example, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers are working to make aviation fuel more environmentally friendly. Tsvetomir Hristov/Moment via Getty Images The federal ...