Aircraft Fuel Vent Line Sensitivity to Lightning Effects Research Div., Atlantic Research Corporation Div., The Susquehanna Corporation

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Markels, M., author.

Conference Name:

National Air Transportation Meeting (1969-04-21 : New York, New York, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1969

Summary:

Results of investigation to develop a technological basis for overcoming aircraft lightning-strike hazards associated with turbojet aircraft fuel vents are discussed. Flame propagation and arrester experiments were performed with high-voltage and high-current facilities and repeated in a combustion research facility using a drive tube to simulate impulse effects of natural lightning. Flame propagation through actual aircraft vent systems containing flammable fuel-air mixtures was demonstrated, and characteristic flame propagation properties were measured and duplicated in laboratory apparatus. Preliminary assessment of problems involved in designing effective flame arresters and explosion suppression systems was made. Lightning-stroke patterns in fuel vent region were analyzed as to inferable hazard significance

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Publisher Number:

690434

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