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To: Paul Ross

What fuel do they use for reaction jets? Certainly it's not the hypergols used on the shuttle. I'm guessing nitrogen.


15 posted on 05/20/2004 3:04:11 PM PDT by snopercod (Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed)
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To: snopercod

I had read somewhere they are using a compressed rubber pellet-H202 binary fuel. Talk about cheap!


18 posted on 05/20/2004 3:35:06 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Right makes right!)
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To: snopercod

no it is something real simple I recall like alcohol or hydogen peroxide. There is a way they are doing it that is really safe. Sorry cant remember but I will look for the article.


24 posted on 05/20/2004 5:07:20 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
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