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To: carranza2 who wrote (3440)	9/14/2001 5:22:31 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 12239

In 1984, DuPont, [as I recall], had a bright idea to make an aviation jet fuel which wouldn't ignite on impact. <This flight, called the Controlled Impact Demonstration (CID), was the culmination of more than a year of preparation in a joint research project by NASA and the FAA to test the effectiveness of anti-misting kerosene (AMK) in a so-called survivable impact. Added to typical Jet A fuel, the AMK was designed to suppress the fireball that can result from an impact in which the airstream causes spilled fuel to vaporize into a mist.> They set up a big demonstration, with a crashing plane. They had big obstacles to crash into on the ground to smash things up. The audience was all set and the plane came in [with radio control rather than a suicide pilot]. Unexpectedly, it burst into flames in a huge conflagration. dfrc.nasa.gov A review showed that it should have worked but a slight glitch arose when the engine hit one of the obstacles which caused a specialized ignition environment. The idea was dropped. Anyway, it wouldn't have been any use in the building attacks due to the type of impact. In fact, if the fuel was harder to light, the building would have collapsed sooner as more of the energy would have been confined to the steel in the building rather than mostly going out of the buildings in a huge fireball. It would be easier to lock the cockpit door than make the planes impact resistant. All aircraft should be controlled via Globalstar to air traffic controllers who would manage the flights which would fly by computer. Anyone could hire a Lear Jet or Gulfstream, load it up with explosives and do the same as the World Trade Center attackers. Having aircraft on the loose isn't a good idea. I imagine that airlines have already instructed pilots to lock their cabin doors which will probably have to be toughened against forceful attack. Mqurice

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