| No one knows more about the problematic issues | | | | environment either. That stuff can be bad news |
| with aircraft airframe corrosion than the United | | | | indeed; you should see the problems with cars and |
| States Military. In fact in the first chapter of the of | | | | the lime seeping from parking structures caused by |
| the United States Air Force Manual talks about | | | | condensation, leaching and leaks. It melts thru the |
| washing procedures, as let's face it you cannot fly an | | | | clear coasts and ruins any shiny chrome, metal; stains |
| aircraft which is falling apart from metal fatigue and | | | | and etches glass windows. The lime screws up |
| aluminum corrosion. The USAF in 1-1-1 of the manual | | | | polished aluminum on diamond plate, Motorcycles, etc. |
| calls for aircraft to be fresh water rinsed after 3 | | | | Airports, which are downwind wind of that dust from |
| take offs and landings over salt water. Corrosion is a | | | | cement plants is actually very dangerous too, even |
| huge issue indeed. | | | | more so than the salt spray or salt air from an |
| Recently there was a horrific accident in which a | | | | airport along side the ocean or a salt lake. Imagine |
| Seaplane had crashed into the bay near Miami this | | | | having both; you would get the dust, the advection |
| was a perfect example of the effects of corrosion. | | | | fog and the salt air all at once. Uncommon you say? |
| The aircraft was a 1946 vintage seaplane aircraft and | | | | Not so, as river mouths near the ocean are great |
| obviously landing in salt water and spending its life in | | | | places to collect the silt needed to make concrete |
| that environment, well there are issues. Everyone on | | | | and often there are airports near by. |
| board died. | | | | If this dust is not cleaned off or if the salt air |
| There are other very dangerous environments for | | | | accumulates and is not cleaned off, the corrosion |
| aircraft such as sulfuric gas from volcanic activity, | | | | could end up ruining your whole day. So if you are in |
| acid rain and even cement dust blowing from | | | | the aircraft cleaning business or own a small aircraft, |
| construction sites or cement plants. You see cement | | | | please be thinking here. |
| has acids in it as well not the world's greatest | | | | |