biendhoa
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Post by biendhoa on Jul 17, 2016 4:48:36 GMT 9
Last night I was looking over the 106 lineage and found a BIG mistake. F-106B 57-2537 Did not have heavy damage caused by bleed air duct failure, it was caused by JP4 fuel in the intake while eng was running,Iknow because I was there when it happned I had just finished checking the bleed air ducts on the back bone for leaks After P.E. insp. I had just slid off the wing and was walking to tell the crew chief I had finished and he could shutdown. All of a sudden all hell broke loose, The whole front of the aircraft was a ball of flames. The runup screen blew off knocking the ladder off and they landed about 20 odd feet from the aircraft. The aft cockpit was melted, crew chief left side of head burned a little bit. (when he got back to the hanger he had to change his shorts, had all kinds of skid marks in them).Lot of damage to the black boxes on the top of the aircraft. The cause was some one during P.E insp pulled the panel off the F tank and did not write it up in the 781A. The crew chief hit the fuel transfer switch and transferred fuel into the F tank when it was full it overflowed into the intakes and rear cockpit causing the engine to ignite the fuel and THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME I SAW FLAMES COMING OUT BOTH ENDS OF A JET ENGINE! And that my friends is the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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Bullhunter
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Post by Bullhunter on Jan 27, 2018 3:40:01 GMT 9
I was at Griffiss AFB, NY in 1974/75 assigned top the SAC wing and watched the F-106's come and go. There was a General name Gen. Price (no relation) who was visiting the 49th FIS. He scheduled himself a mission with a wingman and they took off in some weather. Wasn't long after take off and banking away that a lightening bolt struck the Gen. Price's F-106. He continued his bank and never leveled off and went into the ground. Had to say what happened. lightening strike killed pilot, jammed controls, killed flight insterments, or stunned pilot. I never did hear what the report said. The wingman witnessed it all I guess. Strange if jet disabled pilot did not eject.
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Post by LBer1568 on Jan 27, 2018 4:21:22 GMT 9
Gen Price was ADC Weapons Center Commander while I was there 1967-1970. He loved to use the F-106 as a taxi to go all around US. As a General Officer he had to have a wavier to fly single engine Fighter. Almost every Friday PM he would take off with all his luggage and not come back to Sunday evening. Many times he had 4-6 missions over the weekend and most locations were not F-106 Squadrons either. Can anyone spell womanizer extreme? lol Yes it was a loss when he crashed...It was a fine Airplane that crashed.
Lorin
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Post by pat perry on Jan 27, 2018 4:38:30 GMT 9
I was at Griffiss AFB, NY in 1974/75 assigned top the SAC wing and watched the F-106's come and go. There was a General name Gen. Price (no relation) who was visiting the 49th FIS. He scheduled himself a mission with a wingman and they took off in some weather. Wasn't long after take off and banking away that a lightening bolt struck the Gen. Price's F-106. He continued his bank and never leveled off and went into the ground. Had to say what happened. lightening strike killed pilot, jammed controls, killed flight insterments, or stunned pilot. I never did hear what the report said. The wingman witnessed it all I guess. Strange if jet disabled pilot did not eject.
Gary & Lorin, see this accident report: www.f-106deltadart.com/accident-reports/590021.pdf
Pat .P
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Post by LBer1568 on Jan 27, 2018 6:13:00 GMT 9
Thanks Pat. I have seen that report before. I never did see the final report, although I heard That lightning strike was not primary cause of crash. Spatial disorientation may have played a part. He was occupied with Annual Profiency Exam and the strike could have affected his vision. I got to fly back seat at Tyndall on a few Avionics FCF. That was after TACAN, UHF etc was changed out. Tyndall afternoon flights were likely to get into T-Storm on climb out or approach. We had a direct strike on a mission and it kicked 28 VDC gen off line. Normal Emergency procedures allowed restart, but the flash was super bright.
Lightning strike were common and one NASA bird was assigned to fly into T Storms to document and instrument multiple strike. The six was not very good at withstanding them.
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