Demonstration of fire resistant aircraft fuels, Farnborough

May 05, 1973 - Demonstration of fire resistant aircraft fuels. A demonstration took place yesterday at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, of fire resistant aircraft fuels, a big breakthrough in aircraft safety. In one fire test, the standard test, as ten or twenty gallons of modified fuel is projected onto a track by a rocket-propelled sled at speeds ranging from up to 160 miles per hour and rapidly decelerated using an aircraft arrested write, fuel is released at the moment of impact and comes into contact with an array of ignition sources consisting of wicks burning in pint canisters filled with kerosene, the exact number of sources being variable. With kerosene a spectacular blaze is always produced while with fuels containing 0.3% of additive, or less under certain conditions, no propagating flame is ever observed. Photo shows a rocket propelled sled as it reaches the arrest wire projects non-treated kerosene over the flaming canister, which immediately burst into flame during the demonstration

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Additive Array Blaze Breakthrough Bursts Canister Canisters Certain Consisting Containing Establishment Farnborough Filled Flaming Fuels Gallons Ignition Immediately Impact Kerosene Less Modified Observed Pint Projected Projects Propelled Ranging Rapidly Reaches Resistant Sled Sources Spectacular Speeds Treated Variable Wicks Write

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