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Forum: Tech Log

10th Mar 2009, 16:36

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Nitrogen Tyre Inflation

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Posted By Graybeard

I asked around at Old Bold Pilots' breakfast this...

I asked around at Old Bold Pilots' breakfast this morning, and one ex-electrical mechanic remembers well his airline using nitrogen by the late 1960s, as he used the supply for his car tires.
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Forum: Tech Log

7th Mar 2009, 19:26

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Nitrogen Tyre Inflation

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Posted By Graybeard

from wiki:

Flight 940 was operating its scheduled flight route Mexico City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_City)-Puerto Vallarta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Vallarta)-Mazatlán...

Forum: Tech Log

7th Mar 2009, 19:18

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Nitrogen Tyre Inflation

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Posted By Graybeard

I'm pretty sure I read it in Aviation Week &...

I'm pretty sure I read it in Aviation Week & Space Technology, IGh. Mexicana started using nitrogen in the tires after that.

Did you find anything on the Hajj DC-8? It was possibly a Canadian...

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7th Mar 2009, 13:03

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Nitrogen Tyre Inflation

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Posted By Graybeard

FAA Requires it in Part 121

and probably in Part 25 ops.

It was about 1987 that a Mexicana 727-200 arrived at Mexico City airport with squawk of dragging brake. Departing Capt took the plane without delay, had his wife...

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