Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Rino on September 09, 2010, 07:14:32 PM
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Just before Xmas 2003, my overnight shift was just supposedly ending at 0700. Unfortunately
my relief didn't bother showing until 0830 and this disaster occurred about 0655!
A mechanic was washing the Bell 206 Jetranger in one of our bays and accidentally shorted out the
foam system. The foam also shorted out the main hangar doors, so after the hangar filled up to it's 30
foot roof <very impressive on the security camera footage btw> it than ran out the open doors and
covered the ramp in 5-8 foot of foam.
Enjoy :D
(http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae123/f4ephantom/Dec03mmu2.jpg?t=1284077226)
(http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae123/f4ephantom/Dec03MMU6.jpg?t=1284077226)
(http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae123/f4ephantom/Dec03MMU1.jpg?t=1284077226)
(http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae123/f4ephantom/Dec03MMU4.jpg?t=1284077226)
(http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae123/f4ephantom/Dec03MMU5.jpg?t=1284077226)
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:rofl
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Looks like someone had akiller hanger party! :rock :bolt:
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(http://media.canada.com/5f4aa900-9e28-4adf-a6a3-afa5261ed237/belushi.jpg)
TOGA!!!!! TOGA!!!!!!!
*edit* were any of the aircraft damaged?
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Looks like fun even though it may have been expensive fun and hard to clean up fun.
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It could have been alot worse. This foam is soap bubble based so it didn't do much damage.
The poor guy in the helicopter for the aerial shots had his Citabria in the hangar and his Outback
in the parking lot that got foamed.
Even though the Hazmat folks and the NJ EPA said it was ok to wash it into the drains, the airport
authorities were weenies and made us collect it. Well until it rained like mad on the 25th, so it was in
God's hands after that :D
No one was hurt, so not a huge deal. Just FYI, that was only one of our two foam canisters, so the pile
could have been twice that size! The most expensive part of the cleanup were the two birds my company
had to charter to take the trips for the planes foamed on the ramp.
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(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc117/puasshort/thBrian-GIF-PeanutButterJelly.gif)
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:rofl
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I can almost hear the pilot now......."Dude, wheres my plane?"
Soap based huh, cleanup crew singin "workin at the plane wash"
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You guys just wanted to ensure a white Christmas.
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:rofl :aok
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Well I guess nothing needed to be cleaned for awhile...
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Outstanding job! :aok
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Bravo, well done. By far the funniest thing ive seen on here in a while :cheers:
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Is that guy in the top picture digging a path with a snow shovel? :lol
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When I was at Dyess AFB back in about 1986 the deluge system tripped cranking up 6 deisel pumps emptying the 250,000 gallon water tank into the big hangar. In it were a bunch of C130s and other planes with open panels etc....what a mess that was.
I had to go back and reset the alarm valve after, and hope I didnt screw it up.
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Believe it or not, it's not easy to move that much foam :D I sort or remember pumping alot of it into
a 40 yard cubic dumpster. Then having to move it to a hangar to thaw out when the water in the foam
froze and we had a company come in to get rid of the remnants.
The hangar across the street has a deluge system, we have a system connected to the water mains.
Since no one bothered giving the supervisors keys to the fire room, the system could only be turned off
after the fire department broke into the room and shut the valves off.
I guess you don't give alot of thought to making sure you can turn off a fire suppression system, but
it sure would have been nice that day.
I spent about 22 years at Morristown and have seen some wacky stuff. Fortunately this I had
photographic evidence of :D