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Post by LBer1568 on Dec 21, 2012 4:14:05 GMT 9
Dumping fuel has been a standard for all aircraft for decades. The most specktacular sight was for an F-111 to dump and burn. They would fly around the flagpole and after dumping for few minutes, light the burners which would ignite the dumped fuel and light up the sky for miles. Damn that was a pretty sight.
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Post by Mark O on Dec 21, 2012 4:46:28 GMT 9
Dumping fuel has been a standard for all aircraft for decades. North of the big island of Hawaii back in 2006. (This was a week or so before I left for Ecuador.)  It was actually pretty uncommon for us unless there was some emergency, or unusual circumstance. The boom return valve broke in this case. When we got back to Hickam, and tested it, it broke catastrophically! The silver lining was it happened on the ground, and not in the air. That, as they say, would have been "a bad thing." This is after it broke during trouble-shooting spilling fuel into the boom operator's compartment when we landed. (Note the damage around the edge.) It took us a week to get the new parts we needed so we were stuck in Hawaii. Again!  |
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Post by lindel on Dec 21, 2012 8:12:57 GMT 9
You poor MAC guys...always getting stuck in Hawaii...
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Post by lugnuts55 on Jan 2, 2013 15:31:54 GMT 9
Great stories. I spent about three months on alert at Minot and all I have to say is I hated that damn horn! It was right outside the room where we slept but when it sounded, it was like it was right next to our heads. I don't remember it ever going off during the day, either. Some guys ran out to the cell in their underwear and socks. Not so much in the winter, though. We always got the sixes heading for the end of the runway in plenty of time and I think they used the taxi way between the cell and the end of the runway as part of the runway. They got a pretty good speed up by the time they got to where they could hit burner and take off in minimum runway length. I enjoyed it then and I enjoy reliving it through memories here again. I know that I would not trade those years for anything.
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Post by LBer1568 on Jan 2, 2013 23:42:02 GMT 9
Pat says "A&E horn because when they went off all you could see was "A-holes and Elbows"
Anyone remember the old Armament and Electronics (A&E)Squadrons?
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Post by Don Fletcher on Jan 3, 2013 2:06:32 GMT 9
325th A&E - McCord AFB '62-'66
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Post by bear (Deceased) on Feb 18, 2013 11:01:01 GMT 9
1st A&E Selridge AFB Michigan. 1/2 of the load teams were MA-1, 24 alert was a pain in theA@@ and quick turns CC would hose right fuel running on the doors,then someone had the bright idea to load with out locks. No planes got tuurned the day, what sscarey deal. One load Didn't the white thing locked in the rack right and started to let the jack down. We loaded for a week 8hrs a day. Had to wear helment at 6'4" it was alway caught on something .
Bear
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