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General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Skilless on November 14, 2005, 11:04:35 AM

Title: Silly Question
Post by: Skilless on November 14, 2005, 11:04:35 AM

Can anyone give me a simple laymen’s term description of how a self-sealing fuel tank works?

Title: Silly Question
Post by: Nashwan on November 14, 2005, 11:12:50 AM

Very simply, layers of material, some of which expand when wet. Hole in tank - layer gets wet - swells up - blocks hole.

Title: Silly Question
Post by: bozon on November 14, 2005, 11:56:04 AM

I vaugely remember something about a little duch boy inside that sticks a finger in the bullet hole to prevent the fuel from flooding Holland.

or maybe I'm just confused.

Bozon

Title: Silly Question
Post by: Krusty on November 14, 2005, 01:47:33 PM

But if the bullet kills the little dutch boy the system fails and you leak gas anyways.

Title: Silly Question
Post by: Debonair on November 14, 2005, 05:21:21 PM

That is not a silly question.
Here is a silly question:
How come if you're flying inverted & you stall, you dont gain altitude?

Title: Silly Question
Post by: Kev367th on November 14, 2005, 05:52:30 PM

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Originally posted by Debonair
That is not a silly question.
Here is a silly question:
How come if you're flying inverted & you stall, you dont gain altitude?

Next time I run out of fuel, going to try flying inverted, I might fall up :) .