Nitrogen:Is it really that great?

[toocrazy2yoo]

In Naval Air, they purge the tires of all aircraft with dry, water-pumped Nitrogen. Tire pressures ashore on A6-E Intruders was around 265 psi. At sea, doing carrier landings, 375 psi. Amazing thing with those tires. 25 or 30 ply tires. 375 psi. Except for a couple of crashes on deck, I never saw one blow at sea. Ashore, they'd blow all the time, but never at sea.

 

[tdi-rick]

dehydrated air is also used in motor racing tyres, including F1.
As Shannow pointed out, both dry nitrogen and dry air perform identically.
I've used both in race tyres, no performance difference.

In racing mono-tube shock absorbers, if the gas volume is small, and temperature/pressure gain a potential problem, Argon is used instead of Nitrogen due to its (better) pressure/temperature relationship.

 

[sprintman]

Hey guy's if you don't want to check your tyres regularly use Nitrogen. For get all the naysayers
Cheers...Stevo

 

[Doug C]

I want helium, that way the vehicle is lighter and I can get better mileage.

Would I need to tie the vehicle down in a parking lot?

 

[kanling]

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I want helium, that way the vehicle is lighter and I can get better mileage.

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German cars, BMW, Mercedes use hydrogen instead of helium. A la Hindenburg.