Originally Posted by
Smilin_Ed
Yes. Engineers are taught to build in a safety factor on every component. That's why wings don't come off as you get to the published limits. Water, and other contaminants, will inevitably get into the tanks and the fuel system needs to accommodate that.
Ed,
I happen to be an aeronautical engineer, and I know that.....
But when I designed in a 1% resistor into an AFCS system, I already knew it would be at least that, and more likely 0.2%. And that anything over 1 to 2% would be found out by acceptance testing before the system ever even went on an aircraft..
Here, we may be dealing with something that the engineers did not build in enough safety factors for... quite simply because the design was based on "the published limits" for the fuel itself.
CJ