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To: DiogenesLamp

You want the NSTB report on that as well? JetA-1 will combust on its own given the right heat source. I guess you don’t know about the flash point test.


94 posted on 05/13/2019 5:19:42 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer
You want the NSTB report on that as well? JetA-1 will combust on its own given the right heat source. I guess you don’t know about the flash point test.

I'm beginning to think you must be the goofy fellow with whom I argued the last time around. Yes, I read the report, and it clearly said you had to put some enormous amount of electrical energy into the fuel to get it to ignite. Something like a thousand watts or something.

I pointed out at the time that the temperature ranges are within the realm of possibility, but the electrical energy necessary to get it to ignite was completely impossible.

Here. You need to watch this.

Jet fuel is not so easy to light.

99 posted on 05/13/2019 5:26:51 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: SkyDancer
You want the NSTB report on that as well? JetA-1 will combust on its own given the right heat source. I guess you don’t know about the flash point test.

No, it won’t. It has to be mixed in the right proportion with air or oxygen. . . And then you need an ignition source with sufficient joules of energy. Heat alone will not do it. Sheeesh.

131 posted on 05/14/2019 1:30:31 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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