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Stuart & Kathryn Fields wrote:
> Do you get a high from sniffing the AV gas? Back before Nam and after
> Korea, I worked on B-36s and the fuel cell repair group would drain the
> fuel tanks and air them out with blowers and then crawl thru a small access
> panel and reseal leaks from the inside. (You could stand up vertically near
> the wing root) Even with the draining and air out stuff one large guy got
> high off the fumes and set down on the gear box (inside the tank) and pulled
> out a cigarette and a lighter. A very small guy picked him up and pushed
> him thru the small access panel hole. It was normal for those guys to get
> out of the tank with a buzz on.
>
It should never have been normal for them to get into the tank
without an air-supply respirator.
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FF
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Re: The Mother of Invention
