Empty fuel tanks on fire.

[FYB]

A leaking fuel tank that is long empty will not only catch on fire but will burn until something falls off.

We dont have this in game and i'd like to request it.

-FYB

[Allen Rune]

We dont have this in game and i'd like to request it.

 

You sure you got that right?

[FYB]

You sure you got that right?

Sorry i requested the wrong thing!

-FYB

[FYB]

A leaking fuel tank that is long empty will not only catch on fire but will burn until something falls off.

We dont have this in game and i'd like to request it.

-FYB

Dame it i wrote wrong.

I meant to say:
If there is no fuel in a fuel tank how come it keeps on burning, and burning until finally something melts and rips off.
I'd like for that to be fixed.

-FYB

[Anaxogoras]

Dame it i wrote wrong.

I meant to say:
If there is no fuel in a fuel tank how come it keeps on burning, and burning until finally something melts and rips off.
I'd like for that to be fixed.

-FYB

Because you ought to bail out and admit defeat.

[1pLUs44]

I'd like to feel special, and be able to dive and extinguish the flames and hopefully save my aircraft.

[FYB]

I'd like to feel special, and be able to dive and extinguish the flames and hopefully save my aircraft.

That too. 

-FYB

[Anaxogoras]

I'd like to feel special, and be able to dive and extinguish the flames and hopefully save my aircraft.

Just like in the movies.

[1pLUs44]

Just like in the movies.

Be t3h l337 h4xx0rz like in The Memphis Belle

[moot]

Inflammable fumes?

[Allen Rune]

How exactly is it that an emptie tank that only has vapors left still leaks and leaves a long trail of fire when it catches fire. Shouldn't a spark from a bullet start a combustion that travels much more rapidly than it would with the liquid leaking away from the main mass in the tank? In other words, go BOOM?

[moot]

One for the todo list..

[A.F. Crash, Fire, Rescue]

How exactly is it that an emptie tank that only has vapors left still leaks and leaves a long trail of fire when it catches fire. Shouldn't a spark from a bullet start a combustion that travels much more rapidly than it would with the liquid leaking away from the main mass in the tank? In other words, go BOOM?

Well that's just it, certain flammable liquids have different ignition temperatures. Some are higher and some are lower than others, it all depends on what the liquid just happens to be. I can take a match, light it, and drop it into a cup of gasoline and it will just burn itself out because the match just will not get hot enough to reach the ignition temperature of the gasoline. Now as for kerosene, drop the match into a cup of that stuff and it will light off quite easily because kerosene has a lower ignition temperature that gasoline. Also the flash point of the liquid comes into play as well as gasoline has an extremely low flash point temperature while kerosene is somewhat high. Anyway, a spark at the speed that the aircraft was going and the temperature at the time would greatly affect whether or not the fuel would ignite or not. If you have anymore questions about fire science, just send me a PM.

[Banshee7]

I thought it was the vapors/fumes that burned anyway in most fuels?

[AirFlyer]

Made a post about this awhile back and I'm all for it. I hate when the Aux tank in my A6M catches fire and it's been empty for 20 - 30 mins.

P.S. http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,240254.0.html Here's the post I made on it awhile back.