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Rapidly assembled expendable fuel tanks which provide an auxiliary source of fuel supply for aircraft and which include flexible fuel storage bladders which are housed within sectionalized tanks or pods which are designed to be manually assembled and disassembled within minutes in the field utilizin

Rapidly assembled expendable fuel tanks which provide an auxiliary source of fuel supply for aircraft and which include flexible fuel storage bladders which are housed within sectionalized tanks or pods which are designed to be manually assembled and disassembled within minutes in the field utilizing interchangeable components designed to permit maximum efficiency in ordinance supply and material handling so that a plurality of tanks may be packaged, shipped and stored with a considerable savings in space being achieved with respect to conventional rigidly constructed expendable fuel tanks. In addition, universal mounting tank ejecting strongbacks enable a variety of tank sizes and configurations to be utilized with a variety of tactical aircraft thereby standardizing assembly and mounting procedures for the auxiliary fuel tanks used with such aircraft.

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An expendable fuel tank for mounting to the plyon of an aircraft comprising, a housing having separate longitudinal sections, each of said sections having forward and aft ends, generally convex outer surfaces and generally concave inner surfaces and opposite edges, said sections being shaped so as t

An expendable fuel tank for mounting to the plyon of an aircraft comprising, a housing having separate longitudinal sections, each of said sections having forward and aft ends, generally convex outer surfaces and generally concave inner surfaces and opposite edges, said sections being shaped so as to be nestable one within another when disassembled, a generally flexible fuel retaining bladder cooperatively received between said sections of said housing, said bladder having upper and lower portions and being substantially impervious to fluid but having an opening through an upper portion thereof, strongback means, first connector means for connecting said housing to said strongback means, a first opening in said housing which is in alignment with said opening in said bladder, fuel dispensing means disposed within said bladder and mounted within said opening therein, and second connector means for joining said opposite edges of said sections in assembled relationship with respect to one another so that said housing supports said bladder therein.