Pictured is a 750 gallon tank and the concord had a fuel capacity of 31,500 gallons. Thats he equivalent of 42 of these tanks

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By the way, those green "trim transfer tanks" were used to adjust the airplane's center of mass by pumping fuel forwards and aftwards.

There's a phenomenon called "Mach tuck" that generates a large pitch-down torque as the plane passes through the transonic regime, Mach 0.8-1.5. The fuel had to move aft to compensate.

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