High-speed Servicing for Quicker Aircraft Turn-rour
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HIGH SPEED servicing is allimportant to aircraft on busy routes and the development of a toilet-waste bulk vehicle by the Eagle Engineering Co. Ltd., Warwick, for British European Airways represents an important contribution to quick turn-round.
Of 650-gat. capacity, the waite tank of the vehicle is filled by vacuum with the aid of a Reavell TL13 exhauster with a capacity of 79 Cu. ft. per min., a 16-ft. Metropolitan flexible hose of 4-in, bore being connected to the toilet servicing . coupling of the aircraft, which may be as low as .3 ft. 6 in. above ground revel. After completion of this operation, flushing water is fed by an Albany pump into the toilets from a 300-gal tank (both the exhauster and pump are driven from a Martin-Harper high-ratio power-take-off) and this can be repeated if the process Is so required.
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