alt Hacker NewsDo current aircraft have a backup in-case their fuel tanks run dry?
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dmitrygr • today at 6:47 AM
Current aircraft have * MULTIPLE HOURS* of fuel tanks. Compared to dozens of minutes of battery that this thing has.
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Do current aircraft have a backup in-case their fuel tanks run dry?
Current aircraft have * MULTIPLE HOURS* of fuel tanks. Compared to dozens of minutes of battery that this thing has.
There's reserve tanks or more generally reserve fuel for emergencies. Other than that there's no propulsion backup for when the fuel runs out, instead redundancy comes from multiple independent fuel tanks.