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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
Your fuel goes out of the de-airing line when you take the pressure off. You have the line to take the pressure off.
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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
And when you have your scale plucked, they're over-fueled, and it run out the other side but, now comes a but,
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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
there was a welding seam in this tube, and the welding seam had broken.
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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
So, when they over-tanked, the fuel run back.
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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Is that alcohol that's running?
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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
That's alcohol run back, and you could smell it.
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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Mmhmm.
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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
[??] something badly, and they didn't care about.
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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
So you knew that is highly dangerous for fire, and the first thing I did when I came there, I closed the door and said, "That's an impossibility," they have first to correct that.

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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
And we corrected it, and I could only say, "Okay, the other side you have to correct as well"
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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
"You cannot leave it that way, and you have to watch it."

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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
And after I was gone, after a month are so, that line broke again,
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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
mmhmm
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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
and that tank again came close to the wall, [].
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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
When I left, I could only say that the facility is highly dangerous.
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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
And then one day we got a call, you know the, uh, there was a big explosion and, uh, the whole crew has been killed.
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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Mmhmm.
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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
So, I was sent there, and told you that story with--
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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
With Oberth's daughter was killed in it.
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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
...got killed and,
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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
I had to see them, but a new great group of people came there who built it up and could operate it again.
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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
Okay, that was one, uh, part of, uh, my activity being called from Peenemünde but--
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