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Newbie Joined: Jul 01, 2004 Posts: 3 Status: Offline

Hi all. I'm a Flight sim geek, with a pretty cool F-16 model. Just trying to get some info to make the flight dynamics up to speed. What I'm looking for is...

Centerline tank - dry weight (and it is a 300 gall tank correct?)
Wing tanks - dry weight, and amount of fuel it holds....
The internal tank(s): how many tanks and amount of fuel each holds.

Have looked around quite a bit, but can't find anything that breaks it down.

Thanks

Jeff Frey
Ewa Beach, Hawaii

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I'm pretty sure this info is in another thread, I remember looking up the info. Search the archives on 300, 370, etc.

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Centerline tank - dry weight (and it is a 300 gallon tank correct?)

Wing tanks - dry weight, and amount of fuel it holds....

Both heavy as he11! However 4 people can lift one.

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habu2 wrote:

I'm pretty sure this info is in another thread, I remember looking up the info. Search the archives on 300, 370, etc.

Here's a few of the links you will find when you do the search:

<a href="http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-1102.html">Average fuel consumption</a>
<a href="http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-1205.html">F-16I fuel tanks </a>
<a href="http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-455.html">F-16 Fuel Tanks</a>
<a href="http://www.f-16.net/f-16_forum_viewtopic-t-196.html">How much fuel is too much?</a>
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Newbie Joined: Jul 01, 2004 Posts: 3 Status: Offline

I did a search on the boards here. OK I asked one question I had the answer to. 1050 gal internal, but none of the the threads mention dry weight of the drop tanks, none mention how many internal tanks there are,

And for wing tanks, which is it 600 gals or 300 Seen both mentioned...or maybe the question should be which is the more common...

Enthusiast Joined: Feb 28, 2004 Posts: 98 Status: Offline

OK here are the weights of the external tanks. Ctr line tank holds 300gals (2000lbs) the tank empty if I remember right is approx 500 lbs . The external wings (the 370 gal ones) hold apprx 2500lbs of fuel each and weigh empty apprx with pylon attached close to 700lbs.

Hope this helps. Remember if it rolls, turns, banks,and burns crew dawgs made it happen.

370 gal wing tanks are more common - 600 gal tanks are used by only a few export customers, Israel, UAE included.

Newbie Joined: Jul 01, 2004 Posts: 3 Status: Offline

Thanks to those who helped...

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