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Old 10-01-2003 | 07:56 PM
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Default RE: Gas tank question??????

It's never possible to draw air into the pickup line. In a vertical nose dive with the engine running, the airplane is accelerating downward faster than free fall and the fuel is still at the rear of the tank. If the aircraft had dive brakes like some old dive bombers, it might be a problem when the engine wasn't running, but for all normal configurations, the fuel never moves to the front of the tank in flight.