Originally Posted by
TxDucky
Lets keep it simple...do you want the ability to make a mistake and dump ALL the fuel from an aircraft? Yes, it's over simplified, but unless your primary feed tanks do NOT have potential holes in them, that can happen. The long explanation involves weight and balance, redundancy, etc.
Oh, I get it. And some systems allow to be fuel to be transferred from different left/right tanks for balance and if not used properly can lead to incidents such as TS-236. Concorde had to transfer a lot of fuel front to back between takeoff/landing config and supersonic flight. Some can't dump fuel, there are a myriad of possible configurations contraints and considerations amongst lots of aircraft types.
And as I said: total biased against that model... I'll admit it could be interpreted as a cheap shot.