Trivia

[SunTracker]

I'm looking for a certain answer here:

Your a pilot of a Boeing B-17 in World War II. Your flying in a formation of bombers at 30,000 feet over Nazi Germany. Out of nowhere, German fighters appear and streak through your formation. Your #1 and # 2 engines are set on fire (you have 4 engines). You pull the CO2 extinguisher handles, but they do not extinguish the fire.

What is the only way save the plane?

[MajorDay]

Originally posted by SunTracker
I'm looking for a certain answer here:

Your a pilot of a Boeing B-17 in World War II. Your flying in a formation of bombers at 30,000 feet over Nazi Germany. Out of nowhere, German fighters appear and streak through your formation. Your #1 and # 2 engines are set on fire (you have 4 engines). You pull the CO2 extinguisher handles, but they do not extinguish the fire.

What is the only way save the plane?

Well I have two choice and I dont know if Im good on this lol.

1.  To put out the fire on Engine 1 & 2, pull down the nose and let see what happened(it only way to cool the fire off), but if you put down too hard...it will be hard to pull the nose up.

2.  I'll tell the crew BAILED OUT, so the all the people in B-17 bailed out, but becoming POW in Germany.

[Bodhi]

Pull back mixture and throttle, feather prop, and continue flying, it is 30 k and o2 is limnited to say the least, and the fuel is not going to flow forward 10 feet on its own.

[Nod]

Cut the throttle, feather the prop, dive down to put out the flames.................then as the navigator to plot a corse towards switzerland. Then head towards switzerland and enjoy the hot blondes and the skiing up until May 8th, 1945:aok

[OntosMk1]

At 30k air is VERY thin. I agree with Bodhi on his solution. After losing said engines It would be hard to maintain Alt. and after you fall out of formation your pretty much dog food for any fighters. Hope you got ties in the resistence

[SunTracker]

Correct answer is:  Cut fuel to engines on fire, dive aircraft until airspeed is 350+mph, being careful not to exceed 400mph (wings will rip off then).  The air current above 350 ought to extinguish fires.

[loser]

hey yeah memphis belle was just on last night!

I actually thought it was going to be something to do with the state of the CO2 at that elevation and temperature.  Like at higher temps and lower pressures, only the gas phase exists. At low temperatures and high pressures, only the solid phase exists.

Guess i overthought this one .

[MrCoffee]

Shut off the engines, switch off the fuel pumps to those engines. Hit the fire extinquisher for the two engines if any. Feather props, point nose downhill and increase speed (without losing too much altitude) to put out flames.

Stay as close as you can to the formation.

[Furball]

Easy, do what James Allen Ward did: -

On 7 July 1941 after an attack on Munster, Germany, fire broke out in the Wellington bomber in which Sergeant Ward was second pilot. The skipper of the aircraft having told him to try to put out the fire, the sergeant crawled out through a narrow astro-hatch, scrambled to the back of the starboard engine which was alight, and smothered the flames with an engine cover. His crawl back over the wing in which he had previously torn hand and foot-holes, was more dangerous than the outward journey, but he managed it with the help of the aircraft's navigator. The bomber was eventually landed safely.

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And win the highest award decoration

[MiloMorai]

Originally posted by SunTracker
Correct answer is:  Cut fuel to engines on fire, dive aircraft until airspeed is 350+mph, being careful not to exceed 400mph (wings will rip off then).  The air current above 350 ought to extinguish fires.

What, no mention of trimming because of the torque and dropping the bombs to lighten the a/c?