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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Gman on May 16, 2012, 11:53:31 PM
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LOLs!
(http://i.imgur.com/55AAW.jpg)
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"Hey Sarg, good news, I washed all the planes in the hangar for you last night! :x"
:bolt:
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im glad i wasn't there to get stuck on that cleanup detail...
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I wonder if any inspection hatches were open. Even if not, this CAN'T be good for the electronics for any of these 3 jets. I'd be interested to see which one took what damage etc.
It happened at Eglin AFB and apparently a welders spark set it off.
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3362/3271352004_a668c66b86.jpg)
PYLE!!!!!!
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The planes look dirty...they needed a bath or shower or what ever you call it.
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Gotta love the military, they use a whole lot'a crap to start fires, and a ^#$& ton of crap to put out sparks.
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Gotta love the military, they use a whole lot'a crap to start fires, and a ^#$& ton of crap to put out sparks.
:rofl
"Hey Sarg, good news, I washed all the planes in the hangar for you last night! :x"
:bolt:
"Oh! I almost forgot, I washed the hanger floor AND your truck as well!"
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the canopy on the A-10 is open, whether it was open before or after the foam was dispensed is hard to tell. This type of thing isn't unheard of. When I was stationed at Luke in the early 90's we had a jet inthe fuel barn with fuel cells open and the foam went off. There were people in the hanger at the time....thought it was kind of funny.
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How usual is it to have three (or more) different types in the same hangar?
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They are just flying in Foamation. :airplane:
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Flashing back to Morristown a few years back. The foam system was set off by spraying a wash during a helo wash on an unshielded contact
switch for the foan system. Yes, there were people inside..they all got out ok. The foam climbed 30 foot to the hangar roof <good design> then
managed to short out the deadman switch for the hangar doors allowing the foam to spread across the ramp.
And no, this isn't snow <some local yokels apparently thought we had a very very localized blizzard at the time :D>
(http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae123/f4ephantom/Dec03MMU4.jpg?t=1284076813)
(http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae123/f4ephantom/Dec03mmu2.jpg?t=1284076309)
(http://i964.photobucket.com/albums/ae123/f4ephantom/IMG_1554.jpg?t=1284077225)
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How usual is it to have three (or more) different types in the same hangar?
At Eglin very. They use those 3 models for testing new ords. So they tinker with fittings and stuff for the new ords to match the existing planes.
Only thing i dont get is that the 15 has a base tag from Nellis. :uhoh
Also look at the left wing of the 15 some of the metal has been taken off.
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yep, F15 wing panels off, canopy removed and Starboard Rudder removed. Must be some work going on there.
RTR
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I was at a base where a Titan ICBM blew up cause someone dropped a tool and the nuke was flung out the tube into the farmers field.
I wonder if any inspection hatches were open. Even if not, this CAN'T be good for the electronics for any of these 3 jets. I'd be interested to see which one took what damage etc.
It happened at Eglin AFB and apparently a welders spark set it off.
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I was at a base where a Titan ICBM blew up cause someone dropped a tool and the nuke was flung out the tube into the farmers field.
That was in Arkansas.
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:rofl
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Well, someone go get a mop..
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Im sure Ive told this story before. Back in around 1985/86 I had just got back to Dyess AFB from Sheppard after a class on fire suppression. Great class, lots of info.
I see black smoke come from the pump house across the street from a large hangar we had. The pumps drained the 250,000 gal tank beside it, and sent it across the street to the deluge system in the hangar. No foam, just water in that system. The place had C130s and other planes with panels all removed. No clue what the price tag on that was.
I was selected to reset the valve after everything got back to normal. Seemed like every Colonel on the base was looking over my shoulder.
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Back in the late 80s we had a foam system "malfunction" at Teterboro. The problem was it was animal blood based foam so it stunk up
the hangar for months. At least the new stuff is soap based so it does much less material damage. That hangar at Morristown had 7 aircraft
in it, which almost all of them with open doors <it was a normal work day for the mx departments>. Fortunately the only real expensive parts
were the two bizjets on the ramp whose trips we had to cover due to the foam. Think it was about $200-300K, but not sure.
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Oh and in keeping with the miltary theme, we had an F4 land with an engine fire at Moody back in 82-3. It just looked like heavy smoke
until the rollout, then the entire aft end up to the rear cockpit went up like a roman candle.
The part that impressed me was the WSO <backseater> jumping off the aircraft <10 foot up mind you> while it was still rolling. He was a
good 200 yards from the bird before the pilot could get it stopped and run himself. I guess his motivation was a little.....err..closer :D
Fortunately the crew made it out with no injuries, but the bird was a total loss...nothing the fire fighters could do.
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The foam is deployed from below?
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At least they know it works pretty well :)
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The foam is deployed from below?
No, it drops from the ceiling onto the floor, then fills up. Morristown didn't have a deluge system, although some hangars did.
We had two canisters connected to the water mains, those pictures were the result of one canister going off. As I understand the
deluge system, it's a one shot event.
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How come the tops of the planes and the engine snozzles on the A-10 are clean?
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That was in Arkansas.
I know. I was there. Tho I wasnt in SAC at the time and had nothing to do with it. The base went Ape manure that I remember. We called such thing "Broken Arrows" and they were probably the most, and worst, critical things that could ever happen.
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How come the tops of the planes and the engine snozzles on the A-10 are clean?
Of foam? Who knows.
If you mean of just dirt and grime this happened in the climate control hanger (they can simulate up to 120* down to -30* and make it snow :D) do they may have been cleaned prior to going in the hanger.