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Research and development

Finding out what we don’t already know!

Burner research for Propulsion grade fire testing – BATTLE OF THE BURNERS

Historically, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) evaluated and approved a number of kerosene burners for use in aviation tests. Some of these burners have become obsolete or have been withdrawn. The list of approved burners has remained unchanged for approximately 40 years.

Faced with difficulties in maintaining, calibrating, and the performance of some approved burner models, it was agreed that action should be taken to update the list and ensure standardisation of the burners used in fire performance testing, and homogenisation of these tests.

The FAA created a new burner several years ago, this was named the Sonic burner. It was intended to be easy to use, accurate, and repeatably calibrated. It was hoped that it would be globally adopted as the standardised burner.

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