Warbird Information Exchange

No foam line, as has been pointed out it's an air hose, I have a few hanging down from one of the garages. I would think it's being used to lift the airplane.

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You are right. I didn't look at the fitting end of the hose and was going by the color. Really you can't go off of color alone as it looks a lot like the 1 1/2" redlines we had mounted on reels on all our 800 gallon booster trucks. I tried to find a picture of one but didn't have time to dig through all the boxes. This is a picture of the sort I'm talking about. The hose is about the same color but the fitting color is different.

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I do agree, the one in the picture is for the airbags.

Confirm that, definitely an air hose. Our guys had to use a series of air bags to lift a KingAir that came in without its gear (known ahead of time thankfully) and pump them down so we could tow it off.

ARFF (Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting) trucks do have handlines if they're necessary, but their primary purpose is to deliver AFFF (Aqueous Film Forming Foam) through turrets mounted on the bumper or roof of the truck. Usually the handlines are for delivering sodium or potassium based dry chemical into sensitive electronic areas of the aircraft--that wouldn't do very well with a couple hundred gallons of water-mixed foam shooting into them.

Sucks that this happened, but I have to admit...looks like he did a great job of getting it on the ground safely after what happened


-Brandon

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Wellll,that's racing for ya....Any fender bender you can walk away from is a good day!

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Must have been glad to get down in one piece.
Any informed comment on why did the pictured plane made a belly landing.
Was it concern that lowering the undercarriage would upset what must have been marginal remaining lateral stability or would the damage have precluded lowering the gear due to some system being damaged.

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From what I red: the pilot try to lower the landing gear, but it resulted in a lost of stability during the first seconds of the extension sequence. So he bring the gear up immediately.

From what I heard very often: with a damaged plane/engine: avoid any change of configuration who are not really mandatory, as you could never anticipate what could happen.

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