Self-Sealing Hose for Airplanes Guards Fuel from Bullets

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Bullet-sealing hose has been developed to protect America’s warplanes from “bleeding to death” from bullet wounds in fuel lines. The new hose, announced by the B. F. Goodrich Co., is an outgrowth of the self-sealing fuel taffks already in use. Despite numerous punctures from high-caliber machine gun bullets, the sealing member in the’hose prevents fuel leaks even under 16'to 15 pounds pressure. The hose wall 45 less than %s inch thick and is available in several different diameters.

Title (Dublin Core): Self-Sealing Hose for Airplanes Guards Fuel from Bullets
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Airplanes and Zeppelins
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): Self-Sealing Hose for Airplanes Guards Fuel from Bullets
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): World War II
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1941-11
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Mechanics, v. 76, n. 5, 1941
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 55
Rights (Dublin Core): Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google books
References (Dublin Core): Goodrich Corporation
Archived by (Dublin Core): Enrico Saonara; Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): United States of America

Item sets: Wars of Wonders; checked

Media: Self-Sealing Hose for Airplanes Guards Fuel from Bullets