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Fri May 18, 2012 9:15 am
The risk of exposure/EPU firing is real, I know a guy who's been dumped on three times. He's fairly ill now, the stuff is no joke. What I'm curious about would be how "safe" the aircraft would be considered with the EPU disabled, not removed, there are ovbiously weight and balance issues there. I mean, with no engine and no EPU the jet is dead in the air. I would venture to guess this would render it unairworthy, as far as the FAA is concerned since it no longer complies with manufacturer tech data. Experimental?
Fri May 18, 2012 9:31 am
12XU2A3X3 wrote:The risk of exposure/EPU firing is real, I know a guy who's been dumped on three times. He's fairly ill now, the stuff is no joke. What I'm curious about would be how "safe" the aircraft would be considered with the EPU disabled, not removed, there are ovbiously weight and balance issues there. I mean, with no engine and no EPU the jet is dead in the air. I would venture to guess this would render it unairworthy, as far as the FAA is concerned since it no longer complies with manufacturer tech data. Experimental?
Read up on Hydrazine @
www.astroprofspage.com. N2H4 is hypergolic and a monopropellant meaning it lights itself off, in middling amounts of exposure it causes all sorts of nasty health issues. Very deep in the 'No Fun' zone