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September 13th 03, 08:06 AM
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In message cCUlhtvFIYkV-pn2-6Fr6s4Q9YCdy@localhost, Ian Johnston
writes On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:09:10 UTC, Mike Lindsay wrote: : If there was any fuel remaining in the tanks after the climb, the : machine had a nasty habit of exploding on landing. I think the problem was rather more that any leaking peroxide from a split tank on landing would rather cheerfully oxidize the pilot. Ouch. Ian Bit of both. The peroxide would oxidize anything including fuel, flammable materials or the pilot. If the oxidation process then went berserk (preventing this meant that they had to keep the tanks scrupulously clean) then there would be an explosion - a very big one. Robin -- Robin Birch 
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