Pictured is a 750 gallon tank and the concord had a fuel capacity of 31,500 gallons. Thats he equivalent of 42 of these tanks
Pictured is a 750 gallon tank and the concord had a fuel capacity of 31,500 gallons. Thats he equivalent of 42 of these tanks
By the way, those green “trim transfer tanks” were used to adjust the airplane’s center of mass by pumping fuel forwards and aftwards.
There’s a phenomenon called “Mach tuck” that generates a large pitch-down torque as the plane passes through the transonic regime, Mach 0.8-1.5. The fuel had to move aft to compensate.