3-piece construction, nose cap, straight tube body and tail cap. The post Viet Nam examples were copies built out of sheet metal in under a day.īut those would be the "new style" centerline tanks, which are like F-15 centerline tanks. The first ones were napalm canister kits with a door panel cut into one side and a hinged-mounted door panel installed. As the supply of parts went away the fabrication shops simply rolled their own. You could slice the sections along the mid-point and have a 4-piece body that would allow work on the car by only removing the top sections and, with the engine cover section having quick-release fasteners and the other 3 sections being screwed into place.Īs far as those travel pods go, yes the first ones were unused napalm canisters. Externally it was the same tank as the F-15 but internally (plumbing, electrical) they were totally incompatible if you thought about interchanging them.įor building a belly tank roadster I think, the 2-piece tank would be preferable. The AF F-4 world converted to the "High-G Centerline Fuel Tank" aka: the "F-15 tank" in the early 1980s. The F-15 tank was good for as many Gs as the F-4 could handle. In flight the old tank was only good for 4 Gs when full. One big shit show when 600 gallons of JP-4 splooshed onto the ramp. The 2-piece design would fail at the seam and I saw one F-4 have a tank split in two while taxiing. Very different compared to the old-style oval shaped, 2-piece (front half, back half) tanks that bolted together in the middle.
View QuoteBut those would be the "new style" centerline tanks, which are like F-15 centerline tanks.
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