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Posted: 7/26/2015 10:15:34 PM EDT
Check out the incident that begins at 0:47.
Is that flaming gasoline leaking? In another video that uses this same footage, the narrator says it's thermite. Is that correct, and if so,why would there be thermite in that plane? 
edit: OK in this video, starting at 48:25, they talk about the thermite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJzN-uOxk34 |
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Posted: 7/26/2015 11:06:02 PM EDT
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Magnesium fire
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Posted: 7/27/2015 8:17:48 AM EDT
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Magnesium fire Pieces of the engine burning? |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 9:58:38 AM EDT
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Fuel, and bad editing.
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Posted: 7/27/2015 10:03:17 AM EDT
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Fuel, and bad editing. So it was mis-narrated. That's kinda what I thought. Why would that much fuel be pouring from the exhaust? |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 10:11:43 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So it was mis-narrated. That's kinda what I thought. Why would that much fuel be pouring from the exhaust? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Fuel, and bad editing. So it was mis-narrated. That's kinda what I thought. Why would that much fuel be pouring from the exhaust? Compare that with other parts of the video where it is fuel. It looks like a shower of sparks coming out of the exhaust. Does fuel fail to smoke, bounce around, and blow away in the wind like particles? It's some kind of engine failure where something is ground up. There does appear to be magnesium flashes in there, but I bet 99% of that glowing stuff is just regular old engine dust. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 10:19:08 AM EDT
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Thermite is often used in incendiary bombs, but I don't see any bombs hanging on the plane. It looks like molten metal to me. Don't know what caused it, but a few bullets through the engine compartment can do a lot of damage.
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Posted: 7/27/2015 2:42:28 PM EDT
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It's not fuel. Compare that with other parts of the video where it is fuel. It looks like a shower of sparks coming out of the exhaust. Does fuel fail to smoke, bounce around, and blow away in the wind like particles? It's some kind of engine failure where something is ground up. There does appear to be magnesium flashes in there, but I bet 99% of that glowing stuff is just regular old engine dust. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Fuel, and bad editing. So it was mis-narrated. That's kinda what I thought. Why would that much fuel be pouring from the exhaust? Compare that with other parts of the video where it is fuel. It looks like a shower of sparks coming out of the exhaust. Does fuel fail to smoke, bounce around, and blow away in the wind like particles? It's some kind of engine failure where something is ground up. There does appear to be magnesium flashes in there, but I bet 99% of that glowing stuff is just regular old engine dust. If it's magnesium, it's from landing gear trunnions or maybe parts of the gear legs. But flammable magnesium alloys just burn. What we really need is the original video to see how that flow looks. |
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Posted: 7/27/2015 9:18:52 PM EDT
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I wonder if half of what we're seeing is a grossly over-exaggerated video colorization job.
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Posted: 7/27/2015 9:39:03 PM EDT
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The work to colorize zillions of frames of a flow means a short cut was taken, hence the reason I want to see the original.
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Posted: 7/28/2015 4:00:45 AM EDT
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because aluminum was at a premium due to the war. lots of the engine parts were magnesium , intake, parts of the carbs
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Posted: 7/28/2015 9:18:25 AM EDT
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because aluminum was at a premium due to the war. lots of the engine parts were magnesium , intake, parts of the carbs Guess that was fine until a Japanese incendiary or even tracer round hit it... |
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Posted: 7/29/2015 5:26:57 PM EDT
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Magnesium fire for sure. You notice it exploding when the water condensation from the CO2 fire extiguishers hit it?
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