They were well aware of the risk, so they fitted the plane with a specialized fire extinguishing system that would immediately snuff any flame which appeared in the fuel tank. But I imagine the test pilots took some convincing!
Admiral Cloudberg
Richard Leighton Dixon
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Do you know the tail number of that test bed plane?
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