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what are you talking about? This was directly over a residential area and a protected intercoastal river, on approach. IT. WAS. NOT. FUEL.
( btw, how are things ? )
It was. Wing tanks. Do you know how fuel is stored? And used? It's different for each phase of flight. These jets have wing tanks, often four or even five different ones, all connected by piping and pumps. They use strange pumps, too, some of them are venturi-style to reduce moving parts and possibilities for catastrophic failures. Since they're one-way they also have pressure valves at the tips to reduce 'hammering' inside the tanks. That means venting. I've done training on this (as in, created the curriculum). In these jets (especially military) there are vents at wing tips specifically designed to allow fuel to slosh out, as would happen in exactly this maneuver.
Things are good and bad. Been good with travel, some bad with family, tons of bullshit, and the constant WAITING for shit to go down is driving me to drink. Went sober for 50 days, then drank some. Ugh. Sucks.
Appreciate the work you do, man.
very interesting.. I had never heard of that phenomenon before. Pretty sure the jet was an RC-135. I first thought it was a fuel dump, then I concluded it would not occur at such a low altitude and in this area. How long would vaporized fuel linger at ~2000 ft. ? lol, I remember double stepping it home to keep my dog and I safe.
Hang in there. A little beer in and wine never hurt anyone. Don't feel guilty. I appreciate the props. We both realize this is something we MUST do.
Oh, wow, really.... When you wrote that I immediately thought, "KC-135, definitely." Woohoo, that really pleases the autism in me, haha.
Yeah. That's the military version of the B-707, a very very old air frame. Please Google "kc-135 cutaway fuel tanks" and look for the one with the tanks in colour. See the long, thin, grey tank at the end? That's the WING RESERVE tank (not yelling), and, as a reserve, it's used in emergencies. The 707 (or KC-135, RC in the UK) being so old it still has a flight engineer station. He would have opened that reserve up if they were "landing heavy" (they hadn't refueled a lot of fighters). They want to land as light as they can to prevent damage to the airframe (that's why the B-52 is called "Big Iron," because it was designed from the get-go to land with a belly full of bombs sometimes if a target, say, is obscured by clouds. But the 707 was designed for airlines who want to make a profit so it was designed light as possible and it needs to land as empty as possible.
Anyway, the flight engineer would have pulled that dump valve as he was running through his "final approach" checklist, getting everything sorted for landing.
For fun, I should look up and see what that checklist is. Don't laugh... I fly DCS sometimes, I collect checklists. I have one from a real F-18, haha. Nerds.
The lever would just pull back a cap over one of the wing pipes and the airflow negative pressure would have sucked the fuel out itself, very simple process. That's why it would have hung around, because it was atomized that way instantaneously into a mist by the rushing air. It made a short trail as only that tank would have emptied, what does the diagram say, something like 2600 lbs in each reserve? That's only a trail of about 1km to be honest.
You used to be able to see this "venting" happening as a passenger, too. I would always sit behind the wings of the 727 (to be near the rear "DB Cooper" stairway) and you could see sometimes streaks from venting in those wings too
Did you know they sell JP2/4 by the ton? I was shocked to hear that. I never thought.
And this is pretty much how chemtrail discussions go. Well, this one is reasonable as I have long before this determined that you're quite intelligent and (to be frank) the kind of contributor I want to encourage around here. But the chemtards just "let's agree to disagree" and fuck off on it all. It's so maddening. They could instead learn something really fascinating about planes
This still means geo-engineering could go on, but CHEMTRAIL RETARDS, ugh ugh ugh, I hate them with a passion
Anyway, have a good night