WordNet
n. equipment in a motor vehicle or aircraft that delivers fuel to the engine
Usage examples of "fuel system".
The fuel system was surprisingly complicated, elaborate, a system of huge pipes, fountains of supercold liquid propellants cascading into combustion chambers as hot as the sun.
This Megafortress has the capability of automatically monitoring its fuel system and electrical panel, so it frees the co-pilot to help out.
He checked his blue RDY light to the right of the heads-up display, meaning that the slipway door was open, the fuel system was depressurized, the slipway lights were on, and the system ready for refueling.
The refined fuel serves as a fuel system cleaner during startup and shutdown, purging the lines and filter.
Its fuel system provided the most power possible from the mixture of Tylium with lesser fuel sources.
The fuel system was modified to allow better control over the airplane's center of gravity.
In its thousand-yard flight it never got up to its Mach Two speed as it smashed into the jet, detonating, exploding the fighter's fuel system in a fireball that sent half of the plane slashing through the sky toward the water below.
Along the back wall of the firing room, a row of pen recorders stood shoulder to shoulder, tracking temperatures, pressures in the fuel system, and electrical activity.
Heller bought and then converted a large Cadillac to a Voltarian fuel system.
Ross and the doctor spent three days on the hard, dirty task of tearing out the fuel system to the tail jets.
We were never able to figure out the fuel system, but the tanks that seem to feed the engines are over half full.