Posted on 10/04/2017 7:34:36 PM PDT by harwood
Edited on 10/04/2017 9:04:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Las Vegas Strip mass murderer Stephen Paddock used his Mandalay Bay hotel room to fire bullets at jet fuel tanks Sunday night, a knowledgeable source told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The bullets left two holes in one of two circular white tanks. One of the bullets penetrated the tank, but did not cause a fire or explosion near the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, another knowledgeable source said late Wednesday.
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It’s basic stoichiometry. Without the proper fuel and air mixture, she won’t go “bang.”
What would make them blow? Sparks from the bullet’s impact?
good thing he didn’t have a large bore rifle and incendiaries
Yep. “Empty” or nearly empty tanks are much more dangerous than full ones thanks to the vapour/oxygen combination.
Ping
It’s basic stoichiometry. Without the proper fuel and air mixture, she won’t go “bang.”
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I’m guessing, unless the bullets were incendiary, what would happen is that fuel might flow out.
The fire (combustion) triangle.
Fortunately real life is not like a movie (most of the time).
Pure evil.
Explains the two broken windows.
Lone wolf my a$$
Well if had been Jet-A, (kerosene) it would be pretty hard to light.
But if it was LL100 (avgas) fire a few rounds into the tank, then start shooting at the pavement under the tank, pretty soon a spark would happen.
“Yep. “Empty” or nearly empty tanks are much more dangerous than full ones thanks to the vapour/oxygen combination.”
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Something like grain elevators, it’s the grain dust that can go “boom!”.
He had explosives in his car outside the Luxor somewhere. He gets that fuel to leak, hits the car to explode, it would have been devastating.
More and more information coming out about this.
Flt 800 excelled in that
Those were nearly half a mile away.
The concert was nearly one-quarter mile away.
Never heard of this site. Won’t go to a site if an excerpt contains such horrendous English usage.
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