- Title
- Crash Test of an RB-66 Aircraft Fueled With Anti-Misting Kerosene FM-9.
- Coporate
- Naval Air Engineering Center, Lakehurst, NJ
- Report
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DOT-FA78WAI-896,
September 9, 1983,
24 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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aircraft fires
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crash tests
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occupants
- Abstract
- In aircraft accidents where occupants are not fatally injured, loss of life can result from post-crash fires caused by the ignition of the volatile JET-A fuel. In an effort to reduce fatalities caused by postcrash fires in survivable accidents, the FAA is investigating the possibility of modifying the characteristics of JET-A fuel. One method being considered is modifying the base fuel by the addition of an anti-misting agent which would reduce or eliminate the tendency of the fuel to mist and rapidly burn when forcibly expelled from the fuel tanks and exposed to open flame.