From: Theo_Green@firstar.com
To: lancair.list@olsusa.com
Message-ID: <86256997.00675DCD.00@mail.firstar.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:44:17 -0600
Subject: Re: Fuel tank foam
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>The main thing it does however, is eliminate the possibility of a tank
full of gasoline vapor - which is highly flammable and probably explosive.<

I am under the assumption that Avgas is not as high a risk for explosion because
 a certain "saturation point" is met quickly in an enclosed environment such as
a fuel tank. Avgas is nice and volatile -- good thing. It would be more relevant
 in a JP or Diesel situation because that stuff may never reach saturation;
hence spark = bang.

I wouldn't want to put it (or any other weird additive) in my wing for four
reasons:

   A C-130 pilot said the AF tested it in 'Nam and it made his engines gunk up
   and stop - bad.
   When the FAA did their little
   break-a-fully-filled-with-flash-proof-fuel-707-into-pieces-on-landing test -
   fireball.
   Who knows what kind of gas we'll be using in 10-20 years, or how corrosive
   it'll be.
   I hear it takes long enough to fill the tanks with the existing baffles; I
   don't need to wait all day!


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