How was food and drinks loaded?

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Destroy
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How was food and drinks loaded?

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When these planes were in service, does anyone know if the catering supplies were loaded through the cargo doors or through main passenger door?

Also wondering where the fuel and water were pumped?

Sort of wondering for how to setup GSX is all.

Thanks.

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Catering typically went through the lower lounge entrance door. I don't know where the potable water and lavatory service ports on the B377 were, but the fuel ports are on top of the wing. There are 4 fuel ports. 2 located half way between the tip and the outboard engines at the top of the wing curve, and 2 located half way between the outboard and inboard engines, same distance back from the wing. This pic of FiFi shows them quite well (the white area is the walkway with anti-slip, and the red "dots" are the fuel caps). The B-29's outboard fuel filler cap is located further aft than on the B377/B50 wing, but is about the same place along the span.

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#76 and #62 in this image are the filler cap locations -

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CAPFlyer wrote:#76 and #62 in this image are the filler cap locations -

https://conceptbunny.com/wp-content/upl ... ruiser.gif
Very cool.

Wish we had the numeric index to this. I'd love to know what many of those numbers are referring to.

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I was able to find a very poor image which had the index online, but it was so hard to read without significant magnification it wasn't worth it.
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Try using this link, and then saving the image. Hope it helps.

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