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dry bay

dry bay noun: an enclosed compartment immediately adjacent to a fuel tank but not itself used for fuel.

Noun

dry bay (plural dry bays)

  1. An enclosed compartment immediately adjacent to a fuel tank but not itself used for fuel.
    • The compartment between SWB3 and the front spar was originally equipped with a bladder cell for water and plumbing to inject that water into the engines to increase engine thrust on takeoff. When the original engines were replaced with higher thrust engines, water for water injection was not...2000 August 23, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.6.1.1 747-100 Wing Center Section and Center Wing Fuel Tank Description”, in Aircraft Accident Report: In-flight Breakup Over the Atlantic...

Forms of dry bay

pluraldry bays

Questions about dry bay

What does dry bay mean?
Dry bay means an enclosed compartment immediately adjacent to a fuel tank but not itself used for fuel.
What part of speech is dry bay?
Dry bay is a noun.
What is the plural of dry bay?
The plural of dry bay is dry bays.

Words near dry bay in the dictionary

  1. dry as a nun's cunt
  2. dry as a nun's nasty
  3. dry as dust
  4. dry bar
  5. dry bars
  6. dry bay
  7. dry bays
  8. dry bean
  9. dry beans
  10. dry beat
  11. dry beaten

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