hot refuel

verb, noun — 2 senses

hot refuel

verb
1

Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences To refuel an aircraft while one of its engines is running.

  • The plane's APU was broken and the airport didn't have ground starting equipment, so we had to hot refuel the bird - if we'd shut both engines down, we wouldn't have been able to get them started again.

hot refuel

noun
1

Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences An instance of hot refueling.

  • Hot refuels require the fueling crew to take great care to avoid getting sucked into the operating engine.

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