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Bad conclusion. If your airship has become hot enough to burn magnesium alloy, your airship is already dead (as is whatever it landed on).
by TheDudeMan 4y ago
Bad conclusion. If your airship has become hot enough to burn magnesium alloy, your airship is already dead (as is whatever it landed on).
- nwiswell 4y agoFor an airship of the size proposed in that post, I don't think I agree. Presumably there would be some measure of compartmentalization, ventilation, and fire suppression so that even if a portion of the craft was stricken, the entire vessel would not be doomed. But even so, there's going to be a point where there's just too much fuel to keep the fire under control despite best efforts, and the fire-resistant magnesium could certainly contribute to reaching that threshold once you cross a certain temperature. And you cannot simply vent combusting magnesium the way you can vent combusting hydrogen (hypothetically, anyway).