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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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