And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I suspect he’s dumping fuel. F-111 was set up to do this, and I understand this was an air show feature favored by Australian pilots. I don’t know what type of plane this is.
If an aircraft has a higher GTOW (Gross Take-off Weight) than max landing weight it a system to dump fuel in an emergency. When my 2nd employer started flying a 727 combi someone forgot to remove the landing gear safety pins during their walk-around. The 727 had to dump 20,000lbs of fuel before returning to the airport. Al_in_Ottawa
Working from memory . . . F-111 started as an Air Force plane. McNamara, who was all about efficiency, decreed that if it was good enough for USAF it was good enough for USN too. (Can you say “Joint Strike Fighter”? I know you can!)
Still miss that airplane despite a long career in Strike Eagles after leaving it. Flew F models out of LN. What you see above is called “torching”, lighting the afterburner while dumping fuel. Why some engineer thought having the fuel dump mast between the engines could be debated as either massively brilliant, or massively stupid. It was technically a prohibited maneuver in the USAF, but the Aussies incorporated it into one of their Olympic ceremonies.
Brings a whole new definition to the term 'after burner'.
ReplyDeleteI suspect he’s dumping fuel. F-111 was set up to do this, and I understand this was an air show feature favored by Australian pilots. I don’t know what type of plane this is.
ReplyDeleteF-111 The Wonderlemon… Hard to believe that big SOB was designed to be tossed off a carrier deck.
DeleteIf an aircraft has a higher GTOW (Gross Take-off Weight) than max landing weight it a system to dump fuel in an emergency. When my 2nd employer started flying a 727 combi someone forgot to remove the landing gear safety pins during their walk-around. The 727 had to dump 20,000lbs of fuel before returning to the airport.
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Working from memory . . . F-111 started as an Air Force plane. McNamara, who was all about efficiency, decreed that if it was good enough for USAF it was good enough for USN too. (Can you say “Joint Strike Fighter”? I know you can!)
ReplyDeleteStill miss that airplane despite a long career in Strike Eagles after leaving it. Flew F models out of LN. What you see above is called “torching”, lighting the afterburner while dumping fuel. Why some engineer thought having the fuel dump mast between the engines could be debated as either massively brilliant, or massively stupid. It was technically a prohibited maneuver in the USAF, but the Aussies incorporated it into one of their Olympic ceremonies.
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