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<text id=89TT2240>
<title>
Aug. 28, 1989: American Notes:Aviation
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Aug. 28, 1989 World War II:50th Anniversary
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 15
American Notes
AVIATION
Putting Fuel Near the Fire
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<p> Despite recent structural mishaps with McDonnell Douglas'
problem-plagued DC-10 jumbo jet, the aircraft manufacturer
plans to add an additional fuel tank beneath the rear engine of
an updated version of the plane called the MD-11. Some startled
pilots at Delta Air Lines -- which is buying the new plane --
are outraged that the designers would place 2,000 gal. of
combustible fuel right under the same engine that disintegrated
last month on a United Airlines DC-10. If the controversial fuel
bladder had been on the ill-fated United plane when the engine
disintegrated, the pilots say, the jet would have blown up at
35,000 ft.
</p>
<p> Delta engineers and McDonnell Douglas say the extra tank
inside the jet's horizontal stabilizer will better "trim" the
plane in flight and is no more dangerous in the back of the
plane than on the wing. "About all you'd get is a leak if an
(engine) fragment went through that tank," claimed a McDonnell
Douglas spokesman.
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</body></article>
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