The thing with jetfuel is that it tends to be chemically similar to diesel. Only it's even harder to light than diesel usually is. The compressor stage
of jet engines achieves a greater degree of compression than that of a reciprocal cylinder diesel engine. You can throw a lit match onto a vat of the stuff
and it won't catch - it'd take something more like an acetalyne torch. Trust me, I live on a ship that's loaded with the stuff - Arleigh
Burke-class DDGs run off four gas turbines for motive power and three aux. turbines for electrical power.
Also, even if there were fumes present, they'd just flash and that would be that - a bit of explosive force, some fire, but nothing that would last long.
of jet engines achieves a greater degree of compression than that of a reciprocal cylinder diesel engine. You can throw a lit match onto a vat of the stuff
and it won't catch - it'd take something more like an acetalyne torch. Trust me, I live on a ship that's loaded with the stuff - Arleigh
Burke-class DDGs run off four gas turbines for motive power and three aux. turbines for electrical power.
Also, even if there were fumes present, they'd just flash and that would be that - a bit of explosive force, some fire, but nothing that would last long.