Bucket or no bucket, you can try that with gas (good luck!), I’ll try it with
JP-7 (if it was still made). JP-7 would not ignite from normal flames like
that, even dumped on the ground (which is why leaking of the tanks on the
ground was not a big deal.) They had to use a shot of TEB to light the engines,
it had that high a flash point.
For those that want to read up on the SR71, Sled Driver is a great book about
it. Tons of other lore out there too of course, online and elsewhere.
-Ed
>>>JP-7 had
>>>such a crazy-high flash point you could throw a lit match in a bucket of it
>>>and it would not ignite.
>
>This is true of gasoline, as well. The reasons are simple and well known. As
>the match falls into the liquid and/or the
>heavier than air fumes above it, there is no oxygen and the flame is
>extinguished.
>
>It's the enclosure in a bucket that causes the result. Pour it out on the
>ground (or tarmac) where the fumes mix with
>air, and the result is different.
>
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