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§ 29.969
Fuel tank expansion space.
Each fuel tank or each group of fuel tanks with interconnected vent systems must have an expansion space of not less than 2 percent of the combined tank capacity. It must be impossible to fill the fuel tank expansion space inadvertently with the rotorcraft in the normal ground attitude.
[Amdt. 29-26, 53 FR 34217, Sept. 2, 1988]