To: Western Phil
She's lucky she lived. The pilot sat in between two 60 liter tanks of T-stoff (80% hydrogen peroxide in water) with a third 1040 liter tank directly behind the seat. The ply wood wings each contained a 250 liter tank of C-stoff (hydrazine hydrate, methyl alcohol, water). The tanks had a tendency to rupture on hard landings and fry the pilots. There were also many spinal injuries due to the lack of a proper undercarriage.
49 posted on
05/28/2005 1:19:50 PM PDT by
yooling
(Icky-Icky-Icky-PAHTWANGka!!)
To: yooling
Didn't put in the part which said that this was an unfueled flight.
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