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1984 |
Category: |
Transportation |
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| Page: |
112 |
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N/A |
| State: |
KS |
Manufacturer: |
Beech Aircraft Corporation |
| Origin: |
NASA's Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle Program |
| Tech Terms: |
Liquid Methane, Cryogenic Fluid Storage, Aircrafts, Transportation |
| Abstract: |
| Beech Aircraft's Corporation's Boulder Division developed expertise in producing superinsulated virtually leak-proof cryogenic equipment for storing liquid oxygen and hydrogen fuels in NASA's Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs. Boulder Division used this experience in designing a fuel storage tank for liquid methane, a "cryogenic" fuel that must be supercooled to keep it liquid. Beech Aircraft is producing a four-place lightplane powered by liquid methane (LM) which is stored in two of these specially designed cryogenic storage tanks holding 18 gallons each. |
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