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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

Saw this on the news this morning
 

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I can remember burning 14,000 pounds in 18 minutes.
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On edit: I see Cassleton beat me to it. C5, KC-10 and B-52 at take off are pretty thirsty too. I know a loaded -10 from engine start to 10,000 ft was about 10k lbs of fuel on average.
 
Same here. Diego Garcia 2002 was last time. A hydro troop is gonna disagree about loving it though.

Fall of 03 was my trip to Diego.

And yeah, I've helped on quite a few hydro repairs and I wouldn't want that job. I think the last helper job I was involved in was a left ADG.

For some reason, we could never get anyone to help out crawling around inside of fuel tanks...😉
 
Fall of 03 was my trip to Diego.

And yeah, I've helped on quite a few hydro repairs and I wouldn't want that job. I think the last helper job I was involved in was a left ADG.

For some reason, we could never get anyone to help out crawling around inside of fuel tanks...😉
This is why I won't crawl around in a fuel tank:



I was on the -141 to the immediate port side of this when it went. The heat was enough that it blistered the skin of the plane I was on.
 
^^^^ back story to the above.:

Circuit breakers to a boost pump in main tank kept tripping. Fuel cell guys drained the tank for inspection. The fuel level exposed two bare wires that was causing the short. The fuel cell guys then proceeded to reset breakers and run pump. After a few times of repeating this, the sparking ignited the vapors and..... vooomph!!! That describes the sound I heard before bangs...

I planned a long trip to Hawaii very shortly thereafter before the investigation started.
 
This is why I won't crawl around in a fuel tank:



I was on the -141 to the immediate port side of this when it went. The heat was enough that it blistered the skin of the plane I was on.


IIRC, there was a ton of, let's call it, cause and effect going on in that "mishap."

First mistake was doing the job with other aircraft close by. No way to cordon off the area down wind.

Second, was not properly depuddling and purging the tank.

Third was using equipment that wasn't explosion proof.

It just got much, much worse from there.




I also remember a couple of guys dying on C-130s because they failed to follow the most basic safety procedures.

That shit didn't fly with me. I don't care how fast you want it fixed, we're not skipping crucial safety steps.



I never liked working in-tank maintenance when adjacent tanks had fuel in them.
Fortunately, you couldn't do that on the B-1B because of system design.
 
^^^^ back story to the above.:

Circuit breakers to a boost pump in main tank kept tripping. Fuel cell guys drained the tank for inspection. The fuel level exposed two bare wires that was causing the short. The fuel cell guys then proceeded to reset breakers and run pump. After a few times of repeating this, the sparking ignited the vapors and..... vooomph!!! That describes the sound I heard before bangs...

I planned a long trip to Hawaii very shortly thereafter before the investigation started.

It's so easy to ohm out a pump before going to all of that other work.

Now that you refreshed my memory on that one, didn't the 7-level actually hold the CB in to prevent it from tripping?




Power should have never been applied to an aircraft with an open fuel tank...
There's danger tags, disconnected batteries and even external power receptacle that would have/should have been tagged.

Big, big, big fuckup.
 
It's so easy to ohm out a pump before going to all of that other work.

Now that you refreshed my memory on that one, didn't the 7-level actually hold the CB in to prevent it from tripping?




Power should have never been applied to an aircraft with an open fuel tank...
There's danger tags, disconnected batteries and even external power receptacle that would have/should have been tagged.

Big, big, big fuckup.
Sounds like a bunch of LOTO was disconnected before they could even try that.
 
If it was ever done.
Not only that, but the forms documentation was probably never done. I'll take a stab and say the 781s burned up with the airframe so there would be no proof.

Bottom line, no power allowed on an aircraft with an open fuel tank or even fuel line, no matter how small.