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Here’s why the Air Force is the best: not only do you get to fly awesome drones, every once in a while your superiors say Oh, fine, we’ll throw another foam party, and the jets are doused in fire suppressant.
But wait, this was no rave. It was just a huge annoying accident at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, where a welder accidentally triggered the emergency fire systems, releasing a galactic shit-tonne of foam retardant. It’s sort of cute to see a little A-10 poking its head out of a bubble bath, but then you see that the foam spilled out of the hanger and try to wrap your head around what this must have been like to clean up. [Reddit via Aviatonist]
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I was going to berate you for being new to the internet but the one in my head from 6 years ago apparently didn’t feature planes.
http://www.strategypage.com/military_photos/20064611181.aspx
This happens periodically, and is mildly amusing every time. What I want to know is, how far did the guy who set it off get before he was immersed in a sea of fire retardant foam?
As Homer says “D’OH!”
That’s one of the best pictures ever
made me happy this morning.
It’d make a great desktop wallpaper, wouldn’t it?
Brilliant!
I don’t know if it’s the same foam that’s used in the jets themselves but if a pilot pulls the fire extinguisher lever in the plane, it releases a foam which suffocates the fire. Unfortunately the foam is corrosive so needs to be removed from the engine as soon as possible. This is fine if the plane is travelling at speed because the air flows through the engine and flushes out the foam.
If someone pulls the lever on the ground then they have to quickly rush the plane outdoors and run the engine for a while to get the air to rush through and clear out the foam. That’s one major reason why they tell you not to touch anything when you sit in a working aircraft.