-=> While breaking out of cloud Jim Sanders boldly told Tony about Re: 
news-896 
 JS> TONY,
 JS> In a message dated 12-02-97 you wrote ...
 
 > about the fuel pumps would arch in the older aircraft. He told me
 > about 2 months before and after TWA he came up to me and said "I bet
 > it was a fuel tank if it wasn't a bomb." I suppose he was right.
 JS> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 JS> So your friend says IF it wasn't a bomb?  That is the
 JS> question that has been going on... A timer to a small
 JS> detonator dropped into the tank COULD have caused the
 JS> ignition...
We will never know.
 JS> With the Billions of hours of Boeing aircraft flights
 JS> how many fuel tank explosions have there been. I have
 JS> 4,000 hours in B-52s and other Boeing experience.
 JS> B-17, B-29, B-50s, KC-97 and do not ever remember a
 JS> fuel tank explosion... except due to flak or cannon
 JS> fire...
What was the B17 like to fly?
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