Firebombs?

bsquared · #1 2007-07-06, 03:19

IS that what they're called?

I saw them at the firework display last night. A huge flash with a bunch of heat that I could feel 200 some feet away. Any closer I wouldn't have had any eyebrows left...

Anyone know what they're made of? Flash powder possibly?

deathDiver · #2 2007-07-06, 03:24

you know..from the name i was ready to flame you. Yet this seems like a good question, bad name. More prrt type deal though.

good chance it's just flash powder, could have been a FAE though.

Flamethrowa · #3 2007-07-06, 03:46

Most people would call them fireballs, and if I had to guess I'd say you were seeing liquid fireballs. A small container of a liquid hydrocarbon is dispersed into the air by BP and ignites when the fuel-air ratio is correct.

Von Bass · #4 2007-07-06, 16:22

If they were shot up into the air, they could be shells containing a flammable liquid. I don't know if those sorts of shells are available commercially though. If it was shot from the ground, like a starmine, it was probably a Fuel Air Explosion.

nuclearrabbit · #5 2007-07-06, 16:57

Gabe Mort :drool:

Flamethrowa · #6 2007-07-06, 17:20

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Originally Posted by Von Bass

If they were shot up into the air, they could be shells containing a flammable liquid. I don't know if those sorts of shells are available commercially though. If it was shot from the ground, like a starmine, it was probably a Fuel Air Explosion.

Lampare, and probably not. Too dangerous. We were thinking you could create a safer version with cremora though, heh.

Von Bass · #7 2007-07-06, 18:21

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Originally Posted by Flamethrowa

Lampare, and probably not. Too dangerous. We were thinking you could create a safer version with cremora though, heh.

That's what I thought, what self respecting soccer mum would allow flammable liquids to be put into fireworks!

I do have an amusing section of a book in which the author describes doing something very similar with a rocket header, in which you take the header off, add sodium, attach the header again and light the rocket very quickly.

bsquared · #8 2007-07-07, 01:15

Quote:

Originally Posted by Von Bass

If they were shot up into the air, they could be shells containing a flammable liquid. I don't know if those sorts of shells are available commercially though. If it was shot from the ground, like a starmine, it was probably a Fuel Air Explosion.

No... they were on the ground

FullMetalJacket · #9 2007-07-07, 14:16

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Originally Posted by Von Bass

That's what I thought, what self respecting soccer mum would allow flammable liquids to be put into fireworks!

I do have an amusing section of a book in which the author describes doing something very similar with a rocket header, in which you take the header off, add sodium, attach the header again and light the rocket very quickly.

This sounds like a very foolish, and most likely spurious concept.

blinky04 · #10 2007-07-07, 16:55

Definately not the product of an intellectual BB discussion...

I would say pretty much anything that involves elemental Na is a product of BI, the ACB, or something of the same nature.