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B-17F 349th BS 385th BG

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nice photograph, notice how casual everyone seems to be? like "We do this everyday"

they probably did

There's no pressure in the water hoses, they're flat.

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If God had wanted man to fly behind a flat motor, Pratt Whitney would've built one.

the ones on the right are full. The ones on the left are waitng to shift the attack on the fire once the right hand side is pushed back. You work a fire like a pile of sand. Work one side, then the other, then back to the firstside, then back to the second...Evidently these guys are just waiting for their turn to come.

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

Muddy you're correct but not has it relates here.
They're also spraying foam. You NEVER use water while spraying foam or you wash the foam away.
That's one of the basics we learned in our flight deck/hanger deck fire fighing school.
Remember the Forrestal flight deck fire??? They really f*cked up there and it cost alot of needless lives.
We had a major flight deck fire with fatalities on the Nimitz and it was out in 3-4 minutes

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Ooooh! you're right I forgot that!

Jack is teh WINZOR!

The water would wash the foam away. There's obviously foam on the props, so I guess the guys on the right are working it over with foam and the guys one the left are what, safeties?

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"I knew the jig was up when I saw the P-51D-20-NA Mustang blue-nosed bastards from Bodney, and by the way the blue was more of a royal blue than an indigo and the inner landing gear interiors were NOT green, over Berlin."

A flat hose has nothing going through it..........AFFF or water

That pic is in the book by Jablonski - "Flying Fortress" in the caption he says that it returned from an aborted mission and was fully laden with bombs, ammo and fuel, and it caught fire when they were testing a new carb on #4. The fire went out of control and they taxied it to an unoccupied part of the field where it exploded.

I don't know if I buy all that, but it could be. (Why would they do maintenance and testing on a loaded plane? Maybe just a carb fire on startup that got away would seem more likely) In the book, the picture continues to the left and there are 2 other guys standing there looking even more relaxed.

The thin hoses are spewing foam...
They need some PKP

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Geez......kinda got me to thinking one of the airworth forts had caught fire comewhere. You know.....sorta like the " such-and-such crash" posts did.

I need to seek help from a professional or at the very least, get a life. I've spent ten minutes watching Skymst02's bug avatar gif on his reply to Jack's post. My wife has concluded that I have an unhealthy addiction to the WIX forums. She says it would be "bad" but more "normal" if she caught me surfing porrnn sites. Instead, she just busted me watching a little computer generated insect crawling around a square inch of computer screen. She said that's jusk freakin weird.

Interesting photo Jack. Thanks for posting it.

Interesting avatar Skymstr02. Thanks for that ten minutes of Zen.

I guess Scott's got the forum set up to alter the spelling of some words like porrnn. Hang on kids, let me try that again. porrnn. See it did it again. *&%#! How about all caps? porrnn. No, that didn't work. I know, P.O.R.N. There, I did it! Hmmm....I wonder what other words the system will automatically alter?

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