Shock! Horror! Door pops open!

On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 03:23:30 GMT, George Patterson
wrote:

Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:
George Patterson wrote:

An empty gas tank is much more explosive than one with fuel in it.

Yes, but then there's nothing to burn.

James said "explosion."

But an empty tank full of fumes is above the UEL and is unlikely to
cause an explosion or fire in a crash. If the tank ruptures the fumes
will most likely dissipate quickly.

If I have to go down hard, I'd much rather do it with empty tanks, but
being paranoid about fuel I'd probably even have gas in the thermos
bottle. :-))

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

George Patterson
There's plenty of room for all of God's creatures. Right next to the
mashed potatoes.

"james" wrote in message
oups.com...
my favorite aviation resrepresention is an adam sandler movie (can't
remember name), where him and another convict or something land a
medium size twin on a mesa, (due to fuel starvation), and it tweeters
on the edge for a while

of course they make it out the back door, and as the plane falls off
the cliff it explodes like a supernova. (from what, the oil? they're
out of gas)

That doesn't sound nearly as bad as the plane crash at the beginning of "The
Net". This guy's flying along, everything's fine, and all of the sudden a
couple of smokestacks pop out of nowhere and smite his airplane. Not pilot
error, either...the evil genuises who form the basis of the plot of the
movie arranged it all.

Pete