Thursday, November 30, 2006
In the Hot Seat
Here's another photo from my day at the Richmond airshow. The RAAF guy let me climb all over his F-111. The most interesting seat for a bear is right at the tail on this nozzle between the engine tailpipes. I wouldn't like to sit here when the aircraft is flying though. It is the fuel dump valve and during the flying display it is where the flame for the "dump and burn" comes from.
Labels: aircraft, F-111, New South Wales, Richmond
# posted by Bart Bear @ 9:02 am 
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G'day A Nonny Mouse
I am actually sitting on the afterafterburner. Afterburners give the jet engine extra thrust by burning fuel in the exhaust pipe. In a "Dump and Burn" fuel comes out of the nozzle I am sitting on and the hot exhaust from those two big afterburners behind me burn it. The F-111 then looks like a comet.
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I am actually sitting on the afterafterburner. Afterburners give the jet engine extra thrust by burning fuel in the exhaust pipe. In a "Dump and Burn" fuel comes out of the nozzle I am sitting on and the hot exhaust from those two big afterburners behind me burn it. The F-111 then looks like a comet.
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