Their problem was a tough one: to cram driver and engine into one of the very small jet airplane tanks (about half the size of the more common P-38 fuel tanks that the other fellows had been using) ...
Twenty dollars. That’s what a 315-­gallon auxiliary fuel “belly tank” for a World War II P-38 Lightning fighter plane cost in the late Forties at a military-­surplus store in California. Alex Xydias, ...