From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Mon May 27 2002 - 13:41:34 MDT
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>> Mike wrote: Fuel tanks are
>> pressurized, and thus retain the O2 concentrations of the airport they
>> were last fueled at. Any explosion occuring within the fuel tank would
>> occur irrespective of altitude.
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> Chuck Kuecker wrote:
> I seem to remember reading somewhere that fuel tanks on jetliners are
> pressurized with combustion bleed from the engines - which is much
> lower in O2 than the atmosphere. Sort of a natural fire preventer...do
> I misremember? Chuck Kuecker
I understood that they are pressurized but not to 1 atmosphere.
The pressure in the tank would be lower at cruise altitude than
on the deck. spike
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