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<blockquote data-quote="James Snover" data-source="post: 16026760" data-attributes="member: 67454"><p>Not quite the right reason, there. The Blackbird did use two fuels, yes. The JP-7 as its main fuel, and a truly nasty chemical called TEB to light the engines and light the afterburners. It needed that because JP-7 is remarkably resistant to burning.</p><p></p><p>The refuel on takeoff was for a completely different reason: keep the weight low so if the engines failed the airframe wouldn't suffer as much. The old girl could carry nearly 100,000 pounds of fuel. If you are taking off and lose an engine it is a whole lot easier to stop if you are only carrying 10,000 pounds instead of the whole 100K.</p><p></p><p>She could take off with full tanks, there were several times it was done.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPad using the <a href="http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=92568" target="_blank">svtperformance.com mobile app</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Snover, post: 16026760, member: 67454"] Not quite the right reason, there. The Blackbird did use two fuels, yes. The JP-7 as its main fuel, and a truly nasty chemical called TEB to light the engines and light the afterburners. It needed that because JP-7 is remarkably resistant to burning. The refuel on takeoff was for a completely different reason: keep the weight low so if the engines failed the airframe wouldn't suffer as much. The old girl could carry nearly 100,000 pounds of fuel. If you are taking off and lose an engine it is a whole lot easier to stop if you are only carrying 10,000 pounds instead of the whole 100K. She could take off with full tanks, there were several times it was done. Sent from my iPad using the [url=http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=92568]svtperformance.com mobile app[/url] [/QUOTE]
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