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Successful FAA Testing of Its Fuel Tank Safety System, to Prevent TWA 800 Type Explosions
PRNewswire ^ | 3 May 2007

Posted on 05/04/2007 10:51:10 AM PDT by Hal1950

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., May 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Phyre Technologies, Inc., a San Diego based technology development company successfully demonstrated its GOBIGGS(tm) fuel tank safety system at the FAA's Atlantic City Technology Center. GOBIGGS(tm) (Green On-Board Inert Gas Generation System), is the first environmentally friendly system designed to protect aircraft from fuel tank explosions like TWA 800. This is the result of several years' development in the anticipation of a pending FAA ruling, requiring improved fuel tank safety systems on commercial passenger aircraft.

Over two weeks, various flight conditions were tested. This included ground operations, multiple rate accents, descents, and high altitude cruising in a variety of warm and cold fuel tank conditions. Throughout all phases of operations, the gases in the fuel tank were maintained outside of the flammability envelope, protecting the aircraft fuel tank from internal explosive conditions.

CEO Stuart Robertson stated, "We are immensely proud of the test results. The performance of the device exceeded even our expectations. The successes of the last two weeks, in conjunction with our recent agreements with Rolls-Royce North American Technology Inc, give us the ability to take the technology to the next level."

In addition, the technology is "green". Unlike existing fuel inerting technology that exhausts fuel vapor into the environment, Phyre's GOBIGGS(tm) system uses a state of the art catalyst design that converts the fuel vapor into an inert gas that is recycled back into the fuel tank.

Phyre Technologies, Inc. is a closely held San Diego company, specializing in de-oxygenation, thermal stability, and fire prevention technologies, for stationary, mobile, air, and maritime industries.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: phyretechnologies; tinfoilalert; twa800
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1 posted on 05/04/2007 10:51:17 AM PDT by Hal1950
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To: Hal1950

Yeah...it’s missile-proof. =P


2 posted on 05/04/2007 10:51:59 AM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Oberon

Actually, it probably is.


3 posted on 05/04/2007 10:54:17 AM PDT by patton (19yrs ... only 4,981yrs to go ;))
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To: Hal1950

Has this failure mode ever occurred on an aircraft other than TWA 800? Have the same conditions ever been present elsewhere?


4 posted on 05/04/2007 10:54:27 AM PDT by toast
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To: Hal1950

I guess they mount a anti missle - missle system in them


5 posted on 05/04/2007 10:55:07 AM PDT by clamper1797 (The Democrats are the party of bread & circuses)
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To: Hal1950

What about shoe bombs???


6 posted on 05/04/2007 10:57:55 AM PDT by Tarpon
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To: toast
Hey! It’s GREEN, this technology has the moral high go=round. We are not supposed to question it!
7 posted on 05/04/2007 10:58:28 AM PDT by chaos_5
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To: Hal1950

Flares and Chaff?


8 posted on 05/04/2007 11:01:52 AM PDT by NY.SS-Bar9 (DR #1692 P100 in 07?)
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To: Hal1950

Lemmee guess....they used green wires outside the fuel tank?......


9 posted on 05/04/2007 11:03:38 AM PDT by Red Badger (My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
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To: toast
Has this failure mode ever occurred on an aircraft other than TWA 800? Have the same conditions ever been present elsewhere?

Yes. Accidental center fuel tank explosions have occured in two Boeing 737s.

10 posted on 05/04/2007 11:04:03 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

Any on 747’s?


11 posted on 05/04/2007 11:05:34 AM PDT by Edgerunner (keep your powder dry...)
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To: Strategerist

Probably when they purged with O2 by mistake.


12 posted on 05/04/2007 11:07:00 AM PDT by boomop1 (there you go again)
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To: Edgerunner

No.

Catastrophic airliner mechanical failure modes are, obviously, rare, or planes would be falling out of the sky left and right.

Only one engine has fallen off a DC-10 in flight, for example.


13 posted on 05/04/2007 11:07:38 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Oberon
Yeah...it’s missile-proof. =P

And Democrat, terrorist-loving, spineless President resistant to boot!

14 posted on 05/04/2007 11:07:51 AM PDT by TChris (The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
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To: toast

Yes.


15 posted on 05/04/2007 11:08:39 AM PDT by U S Army EOD
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To: Strategerist
Much older versions of the fight 800 747 too. The 747 had already had the retro to prevent such a problem. Most of the pump motors are encased in a non conductive epoxy resin type material. It won't a fuel pump short that caused the explosion, IMHO.

Ever wonder why the Feds sealed the evidence, and destroyed some, from the public after the 'official' explanation? IMHO, if it were true about a fuel pump spark, there should be no reason to seal and destroy the evidence.

16 posted on 05/04/2007 11:09:11 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: Hal1950

Too funny. They need to be dealing with the real reason TWA flight 800 went down.

Missle attack, just release the FAA video’s of the radar images.


17 posted on 05/04/2007 11:09:31 AM PDT by stockpirate (Al Qaeda is in the United States, they are in the House and Senate, Democrats all!)
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To: Edgerunner

TWA 800.


18 posted on 05/04/2007 11:09:33 AM PDT by U S Army EOD
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To: Strategerist
Much older versions of the flight 800 747 too. The 747 had already had the retro to prevent such a problem. Most of the pump motors are encased in a non conductive epoxy resin type material. It won't a fuel pump short that caused the explosion, IMHO.

Ever wonder why the Feds sealed the evidence, and destroyed some, from the public after the 'official' explanation? IMHO, if it were true about a fuel pump spark, there should be no reason to seal and destroy the evidence.

19 posted on 05/04/2007 11:09:52 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: Oberon

Probably the same missile that hit the Pentagon.


20 posted on 05/04/2007 11:10:10 AM PDT by U S Army EOD
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