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Old 11-14-2003 | 08:31 PM
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PJFaller
 
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Default RE: Fire

What gets me about this whole issue with Kero and Jet A versus gas, is people think that Kero or Jet-A is much more volatile than gas is not totally correct. You can take a 55 gallon drum of kero or Jet-A and through lit matches in it all day long and the only thing that will happen is the match will go out. Neither will burn unless itomized and under-pressure. Now try that with gas and see what happens!! Lately (since I can think where this thread just might go so I will start it) there have been very few if any fires resulting from turbines crashing. Reason being id because what we have learned over the last few years through fail-safe and emergency shut-down is that you take away the fuel pump and its not under presssure it wont burn. Also the kevlar tanks have not been bursting leading to fires as well. I think we have come real far in the last few years, and firery crashes we once saw are fewer and farther between thanks to the guys who are flying these things smartly and manufactuers that are building solid airframes. Lets keep moving in this direction and hopefully down the road fires wont be an issue.

Pete