Sentence examples for fuel valve from inspiring English sources

NASA called off the launching of the space shuttle Discovery at Cape Canaveral, Fla., because of a bad fuel valve.

NASA called off tonight's launching of the space shuttle Discovery because of last-minute concerns over a fuel valve and a bolt on the external fuel tank.

On one occasion he missed that a vital fuel valve had been installed backwards and the engines cut out soon after takeoff.

An investigation later found the accident had been caused by an illegal fuel valve that Benetton were using that had no filter and therefore speeded up the refuelling process.

Its stratified injection system based on a fuel valve designed to inject fuel water fuel sequentially has achieved NOx reductions of around 50percentnt without significantly increasing fuel consumption and is offered as an option for UEC-LSE engines.

The main differences between the established K90MC/MC-C engines and the new design are bedplate, main bearing, engine alignment, combustion chamber, cylinder liner, fuel valve, and electronic high-pressure cylinder lubricator.

Larger pieces -- fuel valves, turbopumps and oxygen tanks -- rest on wooden crates.

The model contains multiple fuel valves for actuation, which respond to multiple pressure sensors according to a controller matrix.

In a separate matter, Japan Airlines said that an incident on Tuesday involving a fuel leak on a 787 was because one of four fuel valves connecting two tanks had been left open.

The trucks were observed via an unmanned drone, which reportedly saw no civilians nearby; the hijackers opened the fuel valves to lighten their load and told local villagers they could fill their cans; and bombs from the sky hit the trucks, causing, predictably enough, a massive conflagration.

During that delay, engineers were unable to properly close fuel valves on two rocket boosters.