Xref: utzoo sci.space.shuttle:2097 sci.space:8583 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!primo!doug From: doug@primo.hig.hawaii.edu (Doug Myhre) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space Subject: Re: USSR and the Moon [was "Beyond the Energia crisis"] Keywords: Soviet/American shuttle comparison Message-ID: <2735@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 30 Nov 88 19:31:54 GMT References: <880@cernvax.UUCP> <18263@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <18420@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <7827@ihlpl.ATT.COM> <79302@sun.uucp> Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu Reply-To: doug@loihi.hig.hawaii.edu (Doug Myhre) Organization: University of Hawaii, Honolulu Lines: 21 In article <79302@sun.uucp>, fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes: >Have you ever heard about a fuel/air bomb? Small charge speads out >an aerosol of some liquid fuel, then an igniter sets off the cloud. >Extremely potent for a given weight of bomb. > >If the rocket first suffered a small explosion that ruptured its tanks, >then the resulting fuel/oxidizer cloud gets ignited...it might have >the described effect. I would think that the initial explosion would ignite the fuel before it's had a chance to spread out that fine. It does remind me of the experiment that the Air Force (I think) did where they deliberately crashed a plane to test a new jet fuel mixture. The mixture supposable wouldn't ignite as easily when a place crashed and the fuel was spread out in a fine spray. From the news footage, it didn't look as if it worked very well. doug myhreHawaii Institute of Geophysics 2525 Correa Rd. Honolulu, HI 96822