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Fungal Bob
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Fungal growth in fuel.
I wish to bring to your attention what appears to be a major cover up or denial of a serious problem in all types of Aircraft.
FUNGAL GROWTH IN ALL TYPES OF FUEL.
This I believe has been the cause of many airplane crashes and is a major safety problem in Marine Engines, with engines failing without notice.
A few years ago when all medium and smaller aircraft were grounded after a major crash of a twin-engine plane the official verdict by CASA (Commonwealth Air Safety Authority) was that the engines failed due to a Fuel Blockage problem caused by “The Fuel Company” (Mobil) adding too much Ethylene Diamine, which is an anti-fungal, anti-corrosive agent into the fuel. When I queried CASA on their findings I was told to contact a chemist who they employed on their research. He immediately informed me that he was sure that it was a “fungal growth problem” as the problem returned after the fuel lines were cleaned. However, he stated that this was “off the record”. Another Aircraft Engine Repair Company also backed up this claim as they stated that when they also experienced similar problems, they removed the fuel bladder from the Aircraft wing and turned it inside out. They were horrified to discover what they described as Fungal Growth, like strands of seaweed and jellyfish growing internal to the bladder.
On the 11/10/04 a safety notice was issued to all Aircraft Companies by C.A.S.A. warning that some aircraft and helicopters in New Zealand were experiencing an unusual blocking of fuel filters caused by a black sludge. However C.A.S.A. was uncertain of the nature of the sludge that was partly organic and contained sulphur, iron, sodium and calcium. C.A.S.A offered no treatment to eliminate this substance except to replace fuel filters on the aircraft affected. I believe this black sludge to be Fungal Growth.
Our Company has discovered during our considerable research into fuel catalyst technology, which we are now selling into China and Taiwan, that major fuel line and filter blockages are now occurring in all types of engines, Petrol, Diesel, AV Gas and Jet Fuel due to this Fungal, Bacteria or Algae growth. This problem has always been evident in diesel fuels, but is now occurring in Petrol and Jet Fuels, mainly due to the elimination or reduction of lead and sulphur.
BP Oil and an Aircraft engineer informed us that Fungal Growth after it absorbs sulphur from the fuel and dies, is forming a sulphuric or fungal acid, which is eating holes in the wing tanks in smaller aircraft that do not have a fuel tank bladder. According to BP Oil this acid produced by fungal growth is now causing the whole bottoms to fall out of many tanks especially on above ground tanks that are subject to higher temperature changes. According to chemists and Oil Companies, fungal growth can double in size every 20 minutes if heated. I would think that Aircraft wings would act as a very efficient heat absorber similar to above ground tanks.
The problem is that nothing can be done unless someone is willing to conduct very expensive trials to investigate this matter and gain approval from CASA to try an alternative technology such as our Catalyst in Aircraft Fuel systems. Our Catalyst has no harmful effects and has proven to kill fungal bacteria and Algae quicker and more permanently than any known additive. These additives, which only have a limited life, have been known to cause other major problems as well. We have offered our technology free of charge for testing to all Aircraft Companies and Engineers but none are interested due to the major time and cost difficulties in attempting to gain approval from CASA but it is just too much trouble for them.
I contacted a Commanding Officer in the Science and Technology Department of the Defence after the recent Seahawk tragedy to enquire if Fungal Growth may have attributed to the Crash, he warned me, under what he termed the most serious warning he could give that “I was not to continue any further investigation into this issue at all”. When I asked, “If was this a threat”, he then became very abusive and hung up the phone. I can offer all this information and names only if I can be guaranteed Parliament Protection, as I am convinced now that there is a cover up.
Most of this information can be freely accessed on the Internet.
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