It’s basic stoichiometry. Without the proper fuel and air mixture, she won’t go “bang.”
Yep. “Empty” or nearly empty tanks are much more dangerous than full ones thanks to the vapour/oxygen combination.
It’s basic stoichiometry. Without the proper fuel and air mixture, she won’t go “bang.”
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I’m guessing, unless the bullets were incendiary, what would happen is that fuel might flow out.
The fire (combustion) triangle.
Fortunately real life is not like a movie (most of the time).
Flt 800 excelled in that
Many years messing with jp8 and dorsal and the fact is you simply can’t shoot them and they go boom. You have to provide an accelerant to make it boom.
You are correct. Even with an incendiary shell the best he could have done is punch a hole in the tank and ignite the fuel that ran out. It is not like the movies.
Even if the tanks were mostly empty they would not have went bang. The vapor pressure of the fuel in the tanks would have made it a non explosive mixture. That is the reason cars do not "blow up" when wrecked. They do burn do to fuel leaking from the tanks but they do not explode.