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Nice pics, and thanks, guys. The one with the jet streaming fuel is a no-kidding, real live emergency that my wing man had in Alaska a few months ago. The war was knocked off early for a whining F-16 pilot with a minor engine malfunction. We had just come off of the tanker and were going to head home. I decided that since we had a million or so acres available for low-altitude flying that we should use some gas and rage around the country side.
We did for about 45 minutes and then we decided to head home. My wingman decided to dump his excess gas 180 NM North of Anchorage. When he shut the dump switch off, the pressure spike blew the fuel fitting off. He had gas streaming out of every seam on his right wing, from the wing root, and from all of the panel under the back 1/2 of the right side of the fuselage. I had him shut down the right engine, and that slowed the gushing, but he started losing altitude.
I declared an emergency for him because he shut off the left generator to stop the fuel pumps (2 out of 3). When he did that, he lost all electrics (right engine off, left generator off = no generators). He was descending below our cleared altitude. I got us clearance, signaled him to restart the engine, then told him to climb and use full power without afterburners (don't want the spark). We got him back up to altitude and moving fast and then shut down the right engine again to slow the gushing.
After about 25 - 30 minutes of panicked attempts to remedy a brand-new emergency, he landed with a couple of minutes of fuel left. Note to self - don't dump gas until you're within gliding distance of the runway.
Wow - Cool story. The F-14 mus have some kind of assymetrical thrust. Those engines are really far apart. Also, I'm sure they were movin' really fast. They would instantly have felt tons of drag pushing the jet sideways.
Where did he come from?
That water i so blue it looks fake. Great pics
That water i so blue it looks fake. Great pics