The Mother of Invention

Stuart & Kathryn Fields wrote:
Do you get a high from sniffing the AV gas? Back before Nam and after
Korea, I worked on B-36s and the fuel cell repair group would drain the
fuel tanks and air them out with blowers and then crawl thru a small access
panel and reseal leaks from the inside. (You could stand up vertically near
the wing root) Even with the draining and air out stuff one large guy got
high off the fumes and set down on the gear box (inside the tank) and pulled
out a cigarette and a lighter. A very small guy picked him up and pushed
him thru the small access panel hole. It was normal for those guys to get
out of the tank with a buzz on.


It should never have been normal for them to get into the tank
without an air-supply respirator.

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