Hangar Fire Suppression Foam

Turkish airlines released a dazzling video on wednesday showing foam fire suppression test at its aircraft hangar in istanbul.

Hangar fire suppression foam.

Fire suppression foam is made up of foam concentrate water and air that mixes together to create a blanket of foam. For example in 2014 a civilian worker at eglin air force base died after being trapped in a foam filled hangar during an inadvertent system discharge. Oddly enough fire suppression test fills hangar with foam. When a hangar foam fire suppression system inadvertently discharges the results can be damaging or even deadly.

A foam water deluge. They re stored in aircraft hangars where you expect them to be safe but consider this. Air force floods hangar with white foam in fire suppression test. Huge hangar filled with foam during incredible air national guard fire suppression test.

1 in accordance with the requirements for a group i hangar 2 a combination of a closed head water sprinkler system and an automatic low level low expansion foam system. The incident created quite a mess. Fire suppression in group i aircraft hangars. Every craft is filled with flammable fuel and extra gasoline may also be stored on the premises.

About foam fire suppression for aircraft hangars military and commercial aircraft of today are incredibly sophisticated expensive pieces of equipment. Video shows a fire suppression system malfunction that covered two boeing 787s in foam. The foam is seen spraying directly on the aircraft and some other equipment. Members of the 134th air refueling wing test the f.

Group i hangars have three fire suppression system options. However there does not appear to be any people in the videos underneath the foam sprays. To be classified as group i the hangar must have either an aircraft access door over 28 in height a single fire area greater than 40 000 square feet or be able to house an aircraft with a tail height of over 28. Fire suppression system malfunctions in a 787 hangar.

Foam fire suppression is an effective choice for many aircraft hangars because when these systems are activated they release a blanket of foam that protects the flammable fuel from combusting.