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Old 21st Feb 2008, 08:12
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Madbob
 
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Hazards of Hydrazine Fuel

I'm ex RAF and as (sadly) I never got to fly one I'm not very clued-up on this, but I seem to recall that the firies and ATC took special "care" if ever an F16 arrived with an emergency. Isn't hydrazine used as a fuel for their EPU or something? If so, wouldn't every F16 crash site be contaminated with the stuff?

I don't know the volume carried, nor the particular risks apart from being extremely volatile. Can anyone expand on this?
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