A goodly number of GA fires are in fact cockpit fires.
We've got lots of electronics and wiring in glider cockpits nowadays
and fancy batteries.
Just maybe we ought to think about this some more.
It is also 2013. Gliders come in two kinds, gliders and motorless gliders.
Seriously, if sporting gliding had been invented say during the
1970's the concept of large, heavy motorless aircraft which required
painful ground handling, winches and towplanes to get airborne at all
and landed out willy nilly in a farmer's field (trespass, as the
event is foreseeable and not an emergency) would rightly seem bizarre.
The idea is to go soaring.
Unfortunately the launching and retrieving bit is the tail wagging
the dog. This may also be a root cause for gliding's unpopularity,
gradual decline and eventual near extinction. It will end up an
obscure activity indulged in by aging eccentrics, far from
civilization and polite company.
Oh wait ...
Mike
At 02:12 PM 14/01/2013, you wrote:
Radical concept for preventing engines fires.
Don't have an engine...! ;-)
We fly gliders after all..
Tongue planted very firmly in cheek whilst running away to hide
(again).
The only time you have too much fuel is when you are on fire.
PS. but seriously, very interesting read regarding the various ways fire
extinguishing is managed. i.e. engine retracted fire is a different
beast to engine deployed fire. What is the best fire extinguishing
material. Flammability of composite structures, and the like. Arguments
of salvagability versus survivability. Great read, keep it coming.
M.T.
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