Patent ID: 7757776

Claim:
A fire suppression system, comprising: a jet engine having a source of fuel, an engine air intake and an outlet through which a combusted air fuel mixture is exhausted at a high speed along a first flow path to apply thrust; a streamlined enclosure forming a volume around the jet engine, the volume having at least one air intake and a second flow path along which air flows at a lower speed through the volume when the jet engine is producing thrust; a reactive agent; a reaction zone in which the reactive agent reacts to produce a catalytic fire suppressing agent; and an injection point for selectively releasing the reactive agent for contact with the reaction zone so that the catalytic fire suppressing agent is transported by the second air flow path to suppress a fire, wherein the transported catalytic fire suppressing agent includes at least a sufficient quantity of a catalytic species to catalytically extinguish a fire separated from the reaction zone by the second air flow path.