What type of fuel does the Airbus A380 use?

The fuel used, a mix of 60 percent standard jet kerosene and 40 percent GTL, was used in one of the A380’s four engines. The GTL was made in Malaysia from natural gas and, as such, is a fossil fuel not a biofuel, which are made from renewable resources.

What kind of fuel did Concorde use?

Jet A-1
Due to jet engines being highly inefficient at low speeds, Concorde burned two tonnes (4,400 lb) of fuel (almost 2\% of the maximum fuel load) taxiing to the runway. Fuel used is Jet A-1.

Where are the fuel tanks on an A380?

The Airbus A380, being a massive aircraft, has a very high fuel capacity. The fuel is distributed in the wing tanks and tanks in the horizontal stabilizers. The wing tanks consists of outer tanks, surge tanks, mid tanks and inner tanks for each wing.

What is the fuel consumption of Airbus A380?

A fuel capacity of nearly 82,000 gallons, a fuel consumption rate of 10 g/nm and space for up to 853 passengers makes the A380 more fuel efficient per passenger than an average economy car.

How can an A380 fly?

An A380 has four engines, each of which provides around 356.81 kN (80,210 lbf) of thrust. These four engines’ combined thrust equates to around 1,427.24 kN (320,840 lbf), which powers the aircraft to lift it into the sky.

What type of engines did the Concorde have?

In the 1960s, the British Aerospace/Aerospatiale Concorde advanced commercial aviation immensely when it made supersonic travel a reality, using four Rolls-Royce/SNECMA Olympus 593 engines.

Where are aircraft fuel tanks?

Placement. On passenger planes, fuel tanks are often integrated into the wings, and when there are also tanks inside the body of the aircraft, the wing tanks are used preferentially. The placement reduces the stress on the wings during takeoff and flight, by putting the heavy fuel directly inside the source of lift.

How many fuel tanks does an A380 have?

Airbus A380 Specs Noise. The first Singapore Airbus A380 800 arrived in October 2007. There are ten fuel tanks with a capacity of 320,000 Litres of fuel. Refuelling can be carried out in 40mins.

Why did the Concorde fail?

Concorde had become financially unworkable after a high-profile crash in 2000, combined with excessive ticket prices, high fuel consumption, and increasingly high maintenance costs. If Boom’s supersonic aircraft is to succeed, it will depend on overcoming these issues that derailed Concorde.

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