Originally Posted by
Sport_Pilot
How do you know they cause more fires? No statistics I know of. I know that there is more fires than glow because the kerosene is more volatile, and there is an open flame. But a lipo battery will burn from a pin *****, and almost anytime the crash is enough to bust open the battery case. And a much hotter flame to boot.
Be it Gas , Glow , Kerosene , or Sport's pinpoked LIPO , the energy density required to fly our models pretty much assures that any sudden release of that energy all at once will result in conditions favorable to fire . Now I think it's fair to say that it depends on the luck of the draw as to which will result in a fire and which won't . I know over the years lots of folks thought I was strange because even my electric flying flightboxes contain a fire extinguisher but like Sport says , LIPOs do burn and the responsible thing to do is to be prepared to fight the possible fire that any one of our model's energy sources could cause .