re: Flight 800 crash animation

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Cal Tech did the vapor tests heating the jet fuel to the specified temperature. A spark failed to ignite it. I downloaded the entire report back in the day. Took for bloody ever to down load back then. They had to use a torch to get it to ignite.

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Looks like Caltech debunks your claims:

"Unfortunately, misinformation about aviation kerosene combustion and misrepresentations about the official investigation of TWA 800 and the investigators have been published in print and on the worldwide web. The most common of these erroneous claims are discussed below:

You can put a match out in Jet A at room temperature so it can't possibly explode inside an aircraft fuel tank.

False. You can do this with many fuels that have sufficiently high flash or fire points. At room temperature, a combustible liquid fuel has enough heat capacity to absorb all the energy and extinguish a small match flame without raising the fuel surface temperature above the fire or flash point. A flame cannot be sustained over a liquid fuel until the surface temperature exceeds the fire point. A flash will not result unless the fuel temperature and vapor space are above the flash point. [Kuchta and Clodfelter] This does not apply to the case of TWA 800 because a) the explosion occurred in the fuel vapor-air mixture and did not require a fire on the fuel surface, b) the fuel and air inside the tank were hotter than the flash point, and c) the effective flash point was lowered due to the lower outside air pressure at the altitude of the explosion. The Jet A involved in the Center Wing Tank (CWT) explosion had a flash point temperature of about 115 F and the decreased air pressure at the explosion altitude of 13.8 kft lowered the effective flash point to about 100 F. [Exhibit20S] The temperatures inside the tank were between 100 and 130 F, and at some points, as high at 140 F [Exhibit 23F]."

https://shepherd.caltech.edu/EDL/projects/JetA/misconceptions.html

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Looks like Caltech debunks your claims:

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That isn't at all my claim.

The test they did only found that jet fuel type A heated to the presumed temperature range did not ignite with a spark. It did ignite with a torch.

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You can put a match out in Jet A at room temperature so it can't possibly explode inside an aircraft fuel tank.

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That's an intentional misnomer.

That was the original test.

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I said the sun was still up...op made it sound like noon with a busy beach

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They aren't crazy crowded like Jones Beach, but these are from typical summer shots near the accident and there are miles of little townlet and village beaches out that way.

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Please verify critical facts.

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I’ll tell you a couple of facts, neither weather nor a missile brought that old rope start 747 down

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Been one just off of Long Island since the 1920's. Notice the color key in green indicating test firing range.

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Probably pointless to even comment as your mind is already made up but no one is test firing missiles in that test range you hi-lighted. It is for testing underwater, for things like torpedoes. Source: I spent years sailing in and out of there while in the Navy.