Get on with it. (Royal command).
Aunt Pru has decided I need to follow up on this incident. I have plead ignorance of ‘all’ facts – however – needs must when the Devil drives. I have been able to establish that it was – in all probability – a fuel fed fire. Here we run into a nightmare of ‘certification’ details. It seems at first glance – please note – first glance – that there is little ‘control’ of the fuel supply system forward of the firewall through the ‘plumbing’. It is acceptable for the first 50 hours of the approval process to use pretty much whichever lawn mower or ,motor bike fuel supply lines and fittings are on special at Bunning’s.
Should those supply lines last for the initial 50 hours of ‘test flying’ then they be accepted as suitable for the next stage in the certification process. And so it goes. Until the homebuilt Tupperware is deemed suitable for a VH registration.
Not a bad system, not too bad at all, until a fuel line junction decides to quit and sprays fuel into an engine bay. Heat source, air and fuel combined, in the right proportions = FIRE.
Non of my business what folk choose to use as fuel lines or fittings – non at all – however.
“The answer to that question M'boy (he's new) is always Yes – unless I say No – Yes, thank you – I will.
Aunt Pru has decided I need to follow up on this incident. I have plead ignorance of ‘all’ facts – however – needs must when the Devil drives. I have been able to establish that it was – in all probability – a fuel fed fire. Here we run into a nightmare of ‘certification’ details. It seems at first glance – please note – first glance – that there is little ‘control’ of the fuel supply system forward of the firewall through the ‘plumbing’. It is acceptable for the first 50 hours of the approval process to use pretty much whichever lawn mower or ,motor bike fuel supply lines and fittings are on special at Bunning’s.
Should those supply lines last for the initial 50 hours of ‘test flying’ then they be accepted as suitable for the next stage in the certification process. And so it goes. Until the homebuilt Tupperware is deemed suitable for a VH registration.
Not a bad system, not too bad at all, until a fuel line junction decides to quit and sprays fuel into an engine bay. Heat source, air and fuel combined, in the right proportions = FIRE.
Non of my business what folk choose to use as fuel lines or fittings – non at all – however.
“The answer to that question M'boy (he's new) is always Yes – unless I say No – Yes, thank you – I will.