Talk:Self-sealing fuel tank

Other countries and self sealing tanks
Did anyone in the UK concurrently come up with a successful design? I assume that the Germans and Russians had something too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.145.240.241 (talk) 08:46, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Self sealing fuel tank were invented by an Grumann Aircraft USA 1939.. First used in 1941 F4F. I would not believe anything written on this page. It is not fact more British invention fiction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.121.85.215 (talk) 12:54, 15 November 2010 (UTC)


 * "The Imber Self-Sealing Petrol Tank" - a 1919 Flight article here: - the tank was used on the Airco DH.9 and Sopwith Snipe which pre-date the F4F Wildcat by twenty years.


 * Jack Imber's 1918 US patent here:

==Here is a bit if History= by the Glenn L. Martin Co. engineers, gives promise of resulting in the ... bag or inner liner, known as the Mareng fuel cell, is constructed from neoprene- ...http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cen-v017n009.p336. Published 1939 before WW2. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.64.176.178 (talk) 15:14, 15 November 2010 (UTC) here is another http://books.google.com/books?id=NycDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA64&lpg=PA64&dq=british+self+sealing+fuel+invention&source=bl&ots=qnbYkejHX3&sig=rU_3nbMr4J766avU7wLeO8R9dDs&hl=en&ei=vknhTPzvK830sgad9cSJDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=british%20self%20sealing%20fuel%20invention&f=false —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.64.176.178 (talk) 15:17, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

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