{"id":9051,"date":"2024-08-18T21:42:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T13:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=9051"},"modified":"2024-08-18T21:48:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T13:48:44","slug":"why-does-the-horizontal-stabilizer-have-a-fuel-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/why-does-the-horizontal-stabilizer-have-a-fuel-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does The Horizontal Stabilizer Have a Fuel Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Does The Horizontal Stabilizer Have a Fuel Tank\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Og1DSen2NzI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The A330 is equipped with this feature to get better performance, in terms of fuel consumption as well as range.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The A330 has the onboard flight computer to auto shift the fuel from the main tank to the tail tank (on horizontal stabilizer).<\/p>\n<p>The make the CG shifting backward to reduce the tail-down force. In turn, the acft can fly at lower AOA, with lower thrust required to generate lift.<\/p>\n<p>The benefit is lower the fuel consumption and so the acft can fly better range, theoretically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A330 is equipped with this feature to get better performance, in terms of fuel consumption as well as range. &nbsp; The A330 has the onboard flight computer to auto shift the fuel from the main tank to the tail tank (on horizontal stabilizer). The make the CG shifting backward to reduce the tail-down force.<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/why-does-the-horizontal-stabilizer-have-a-fuel-tank\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9054,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions\/9054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}