I flew three months in North Central Alaska quite a few years ago. It was quite a bit colder back then. At 65 below the fuel handlers refused to refuel our helicopters and we had to do it ourselves. Believe me, Jet Fuel at those temps has no problems freezing anything that isn't already frozen. We spent a month and a half living in a tent and had to be very careful with our stove fuel. Of course we never would have considered sitting around playing cards and drinking so the issue with alcoholic beverages never came up. Fred At 08:12 AM 10/3/2000 -0700, Dave Uebele wrote: >I also recently read about needing to very carefull of spilling stove >fuel one yourself in cold conditions, the cold fuel is still evaporating, >and thus cooling the remaining liquid fuel, good way to get spot frostbite >where the fuel spills on you. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Oct 03 2000 - 19:54:23 PDT
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