alt Hacker NewsThis is probably one of the coolest planes and it's SOP is to leak fuel until it gets going enough that the heat seals it's seams due to expansion
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mulmen • today at 6:32 AM
The engine cores alone expand 6” when they heat up.
This is probably one of the coolest planes and it's SOP is to leak fuel until it gets going enough that the heat seals it's seams due to expansion
The engine cores alone expand 6” when they heat up.
Particularly toxic boron-enriched fuel at that, to sustain those same high temperatures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JP-7