RE: Nitrogen

[Ron Soave <soavero@yahoo.com>]

--- Hal Faulkner <hal@katemuir.com> wrote:
> Thae aviation industry may be trying to reduce the
> chance of fire and
> getting rid of the atmospheric oxygen in the tires

HF,
That would be the reason. Significant parts of my
Sprite were funded by our building of on-board inert
gas generating systems (OBIGGS) that strip oxygen out
of air and pump nitrogen into fuel tanks to inert
them.

Ron
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