Flares, aerial

Stars (aerial flares) that burn so slow that they fall to the ground still burning. 

Aerial flares syn. meteor or rocket flares) that are propelled from a gun and signal as they ascend (to around 70m) and descend. 

Flares Articles containing pyrotechnic substances which are designed for use to illuminate, identify, signal or warn. The term includes Flares, Aerial Flares, Surface. UN App. B, lATA App. A... 

Delay Element C (Fig 1-46) is also column type but it is vented. The vent serves for the escape of primer and delay column gases. The time range of this element is 0.50 to 10.0 seconds. It has been used for fixed time aerial bursts, such in flares... 

High luminous intensity color purity produced by flames resulting from the combustion of Group II perchlorates mixed with alcohols or other org solvents was noted in a previous study made to adapt these mixes to markers flares for aerial use. Tried to improve Marine MK2-0 Marker but concluded that no improvement is possible unless MK2-0 is redesigned (Ref 7)... 

Flare, Guide An electrically ignited aircraft flare for attachment to an aerial bomb, which produces a very bright light, either white or colored, to mark the position of the bomb and permits its guidance to the target... 

They were also found very effective in Aerial bombs (because their radius of blast damage was greater than with nonaluminized expls) and also in incendiary bombs, flares, photoflash bombs etc... 

Chlorates mixed with combustible materials may form expl compns. For example, an expln can occur if a chlorate is mixed with org matter, charcoal or sulfur and the mixt is struck with a hammer or heated. In the expl industry, chlorates are used as oxidg agents in combination with MF, phosphorus, antimony sulfide other combustible substances for primer cap compns. They are also used in pyrotechnic compns for flares aerial bombs, and as a component of permissible expls. Chlorates, as well as perchlorates, are used extensively in the manuf of Cheddites(qv)... 

Colored light compositions are used in the form of a loose powder, or are tamped into paper tubes in torches for political parades, for highway warnings, and for railway and marine signals, in Bengal lights, in airplane flares, and in lances for set pieces, or are prepared in the form of compact pellets as stars for Roman candles, rockets, and aerial bombs, or as stars to be shot from a special pistol for signaling. 

Uses As oxidizing agent in primer caps in combination with mercury fulminate and with red phosphorus, antimony sulfide, and other combustible substances,1 P36. In pyrotechnic mixtures as component of airplane flares, stars for aerial bombs and for signaling, maroons, white and colored smokes. As component of Permissibles. In incendiary projectiles, P5. 

Colored Low-Target Flare, M50 was developed in 1944 when mass concentration of planes for ni t aerial attacks had grown so heavy that some method of identifying group leaders in the air was required. This flare was towed by a cable behind the plane of each leader, with each leader having a different colored flare. Burning time was five minutes and candlepower 20000 to 225000 (Ref 2, p 316)... 

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