"Stuart & Kathryn Fields" wrote in message
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Do you get a high from sniffing the AV gas? Back before Nam and after Korea,
I worked on B-36s and the fuel cell repair group would drain the fuel tanks
and air them out with blowers and then crawl thru a small access panel and
reseal leaks from the inside. (You could stand up vertically near the wing
root) Even with the draining and air out stuff one large guy got high off the
fumes and set down on the gear box (inside the tank) and pulled out a
cigarette and a lighter. A very small guy picked him up and pushed him thru
the small access panel hole. It was normal for those guys to get out of the
tank with a buzz on.

Today's standards would never let that happen. They at a minimum would have
respirators with activated charcoal elements, and possibly forced (positive
pressure) fresh air masks.
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Jim in NC