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All the balloonists is the world and this is it.

What is wrong , nothing to share with new balloonist's

What happens to all the submissions as they seem to be deleted after2 days. who is rsponsible for that.

post something

If not you may get tired of my postings

Someone said this was a boring group

How can a group be boring if nothing gets posted

If others are getting posts and they are lasting more than two days let me know why mine are so short

I fly a balloon and maintain a website and am interested in learning more especially from pilots with a lot of experience so maybe some of you can answer some of the post and questions

With some of the ignoramus posting I have seen on some of the groups nobody should have a problem in posting. Some people!!!!!!

I will post questions and comments but I would like to see some action.

I want to find out more about nitrogen injection. + and - . Can you put nitrogen in your tanks if you have your main tank that the pilot is drawing from just heated. My pilot is drawing vapour and not liquid.

Marvin Schultz

Marvin, your news server deletes old messages automatically. Your news server administrator must have it set up for this group to delete in 2 days. You can either find a better news server or use a service such as DejaNews.

Hi Marvin,

I'll answer your question about Nitrogen first:

You can't use nitrogen in a fuel tank that feeds a vapor pilot light. Nitogen is an inert gas (meaning it won't burn) and it sits on top of the propane in the fuel tank. Your vapor pilot light would draw the nitrogen instead of propane and you would not be able to light it. You have two options: Use nitrogen only in the tanks that draw liquid for the main blast valves and heat your tank that feeds the pilot, or get a burner that uses a liquid pilot system with your next balloon.

Your problem with posts in this newsgroup being deleted after two days rests with the news server you use. The administrator at your ISP determines how long messages will stay on their server. If you are not happy with it, change ISPs.

Good flying!!

On Sun, 13 Dec 1998 23:38:07 -0700, Marvin Schultz

You can use Nitrogen in a tank which you're running a vapour pilot light from - you actually get a propane-nitrogen mix in the top of the tank, and in 'normal' conditions (say, above 0 celcius ambient, and less than 10,000 ft ish) it will work OK - but you may need to turn up your regulator. You can't do this if your flying in very cold conditions (the vapour pressure of the propane will be too low to get a decent proportion of propane in your propane/N2 mix) or when flying very high. Earlier this year I had a pilot light go out at 17,000ft over the French alps after a take-off at a sub-zero (celcius) ambient - but I had some non-nitrogen spiked tanks to swap the pilot light on to. I've never had a problem like this when flying in the UK.

If you really want to fly the whole time with nitrogen spiked tanks then think about using a burner with liquid pilot lights.