Can you answer the question... how much fuel in metric tons is carried on each wing of this plane? And where is all that exhaust being expelled? They say it is 250 metric tons of fuel total on an Airbus.
The big tank is in the center. Looks like each of the wing tanks holds about 4530 kilograms of fuel. A little less in the newer planes. So say, roughly, 4 metric tons for each wing.
Note, however, that the center tank does extend into the wings. So you need to calculate what percentage of the center tank’s fuel is in the wings.
less than one tenth that 250 ton amount in a 737.
I had to look it up, but there are about 7,000 lbs of fuel in each wing in a 737. There is more fuel in fuselage tanks.
Modern planes use a high bypass turbofan engine, so the big bulky part of the engine you see at the front contains the fan (propeller!) which is connected by a shaft to a turbine aft of where the fuel is burned.
The hot gasses hit the turbine in the back, causing it to turn, and the turbine turns the fan (connected to the turbine by that shaft) generating thrust like a...well, propeller driven plane. A smaller portion of the hot gas gets expelled out the back, and that adds to the thrust.
Roughly 50-70% of the thrust from a high bypass turbofan engine comes from the fan blades, and the remainder from the core exhaust.
Each engine overall generates about 20,000 lbs of thrust.
Someone taped the Ground to Air conversation, and when the pilot declared her emergency to the traffic controller, that was her answer to how much fuel she had, as she was cleared for a straight in to the closest runway, 27L.