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"Ron Natalie" wrote:

"Cecil E. Chapman" wrote in message
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You can get some of the original versions of halon extinguishers on eBay...
There are a few liquidators which are clearing the older stock for
merchants. I have two and not ONE elephant has EVER shown his head ;-)


You can still get Halon ones from the aircraft suppliers.

Fire on board is real bad. You're only option is to get down QUICK. If
the
extinguisher gives you another minute or so, it's done it's job. I have a
friend
who lost his plane to in-flight fire. Another minute or so in the air and I
would
have lost my friend as well.



He could have used both an extinguisher and a chute!

For a bunch of rugged individualists, pilots can be the worst bunch of
conformists. I get constant ridicule for carrying a little halon
extinguisher in my homebuilt and also for wearing a chute. My legs are
right under the fuel tank on my little Stits, just like in a Cub, Champ,
etc. Cool or not, I'm gonna have that extinguisher anytime I'm in the
plane. My primary use of the chute is for glider racing. However, since
I'm paying to get the thing repacked all the time, I might as well get
as much use out of it as possible. Situations that require an
extinguisher or a chute are thankfully few, however, either left behind
on the ground are of no use at all if I have a fire inflight.

Race car drivers used to think it was uncool to wear helmets.