wing tanks

i. Fuel tanks located inside the wing.
ii. Integral wing tanks formed by sealing a part of the wing to the house fuel. See integral fuel tank.
iii. Wing-mounted drop tanks where an aircraft has drop tanks elsewhere. Normally referred to as wing drop tanks.

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The article is absolutely correct to mention a concern about wet wing tanks leaking as the fleet ages.

SKYLANE FUEL BLADDERS

According to an FAA inspector who examined the accident site, there was no odor of fuel at the accident site, nor was fuel observed in the wing tanks.

NTSB Reports: Recent general aviation and air carrier accidents

There was this pilot by the name of Heller who couldn't get rid of his wing tanks. We shepherded him out of the way.

Of Mustangs, Hayabusas, and Gurkas: Aurele "Van" Van Dc Weghe

"Suddenly, large quantities of fuel poured out of the left wing tanks; we felt a large bump when the fuel ignited, and all four engines stopped," Gorse said.

Treasure in the North Sea: after crash, WW II B-17 pilot went right back to flying: Part II

The modification took ten days and involved specialists at Lufthansa Technik's VIP & Executive Jet Maintenance product division reinforcing various areas on the inside of the aircraft's structure, particularly in the wing tanks, to install the winglets.

European first for Lufthansa Technik

The INHIBIT logic is designed to close off the internal wing tanks from feeding into the feed tanks.

Over Malaysia, your signal divert

Salvesen began by installing 18 x 5t single-connection vertical Unique Seaflex Mono Buoyancy Units into the wing tanks, which run fore and aft, port and starboard.

Historic WWII Landing Craft Salvaged with Seaflex

We've put 45 lift bags into the wing tanks and engine room which were then inflated.

Landfall rises to the surface; Historic craft spent four years at bottom of dock

What are the actual cooling temperatures governing heat transfer, in the presence of variable frictional heating along the wing chord of a 777 at Mach 0.80, between the cold air outside and the fuel inside the wing tanks?

Lack of data on jet fuel freezing

An F-16 had experienced a cockpit malfunction and inadvertent munitions release while jettisoning the external wing tanks during an in-flight emergency.

Weapons safety

[1] Now powered by three of the four engines, the A380 circled to dump fuel (which was also leaking out of two wing tanks, above the failed engine).The Qantas plane then returned to Changi Airport, to land without thrust reversers, using emergency pressurized nitrogen to lower landing gear since the hydraulic system had been compromised by the uncontained engine failure.

Gas Turbine Progress through Trouble

As shown in Fig.5 a typical vessel for carrying crude oil is provided with a central tank number five and six pairs of wing tanks. Less side tanks are explained by the need to carry an extra amount of ballast during a voyage by ship ballast.