Olympic torch... Am I dumb?? If you cannot take fire etc onto an aircraft?

Question

How do they keep the torch alight without hazards?? Please help

Answer 1

The aircraft carrying the flame has a specially built lantern which keeps the flame burning.     There is also an secondary flame that was lit at the same time that travels with it in case of events where the flame is extinguised, as it was this year.   The aircraft carrying the flame has a specially built lantern which keeps the flame burning.

Answer 2

The torch is a carefully planned and extremely well protected part of the Olympic ceremony.

The route it travels is planned up to more than a year in advance, and it does not travel on commercial aircraft with passengers or other cargo.

The flame is kept alive with more than one source, lit from the original flame in Greece, and it's not burning with a 2 1/2 foot flame...it's protected, compressed gas in containers with regulated outgassing, and not dangerous to it's surroundings. As one source of the flame runs down, it's used to light the next, with sources directly lit from the original always in reserve.

Flame in an aircraft isn't a huge problem...until the last couple of decades, smoking, with matches and lighters, was allowed on virtually every airplane.

Answer 3

I think they have a special airplane but i`m not sure.

Answer 4

they out out the torch during flights, but leave a lantern or something with the fire from greece alive, and they light it again when they land, for the relay.

Answer 5

they carefully put it in a place or box or something to protect it and take it to a plane.i am not sure if it is DHL is carrying it.