Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:35:04 +0100, Dave wrote:

The probes fill up with ash.
I very much doubt it, as there is no air flow through them. Because of
this, the ash would flow around them. We never encountered this problem
with any aircraft supplied to Saudi Arabia.

Wrong type of dust.

I had assumed that everyone knew that the desert contained sand and not
volcanic dust.

Fine, sharp, volcanic ash is not the same a smooth, weatherered,
desert dust. I would not expect it to behave in the same way.

It doesn't, it tends to turn into glass in the combustion chamber.


Dave