Ususally shut down #1 only... unless things have changed in the last 25 years.
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Ususally shut down #1 only... unless things have changed in the last 25 years.
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If you really wanted to get your peepee spanked good circa 2005 timeframe in VP-1....you could loiter 2 engines.... It is in the NORMAL procedures Ch.8 section of our NATOPS BTW.....
VA-145 KA-6D 1974
I have a question about this picture. It looks like the A-6 has fuel tanks hung under each wing for tanking other aircraft. If for some reason it had to recover with most of the fuel still on board would it be able to land with that fuel load, dump the fuel or pickle the tanks?
VF-21 Freelancers F-4J Phantom II tanks from VA-25 Fist of the Fleet A-7E over the Tonkin Gulf, spring 1973.
Looks like the speedbrake is cracked open on the SLUF. Did he have to slow down for the mighty Phantom to get plugged in?
We used to shut down 2 engines all the time, especially in the IO.
If its like the prowler you would either dump whats left in the tanks or transfer it to the main bag. Trapping with fuel in the wings or drop tanks is bad. No need to drop tanks
As long as you're at or below MAX-TRAP, you're good-to-go ... UNLESS you've got fuel in one of the wing drops and a failure to XFER ... then it's got to go because of lateral stress on the arresting gear and/or aircraft -- at least that's the way it "was" ....
:sleep_125KA-6 Tankers have had that experience on a regular basis -- i.e., more than once in my case ... it's a very expensive fuel XFER problem when looking for that bottom line as you selective jettison off the offending drop tank ...
If its like the prowler you would either dump whats left in the tanks or transfer it to the main bag. Trapping with fuel in the wings or drop tanks is bad. No need to drop tanks
As long as you're at or below MAX-TRAP, you're good-to-go ... UNLESS you've got fuel in one of the wing drops and a failure to XFER ... then it's got to go because of lateral stress on the arresting gear and/or aircraft -- at least that's the way it "was" ....
KA-6 Tankers have had that experience on a regular basis -- i.e., more than once in my case ... it's a very expensive fuel XFER problem when looking for that bottom line as you selective jettison off the offending drop tank ...
Thanks!
As long as you're at or below MAX-TRAP, you're good-to-go ... UNLESS you've got fuel in one of the wing drops and a failure to XFER ... then it's got to go because of lateral stress on the arresting gear and/or aircraft -- at least that's the way it "was" ....
KA-6 Tankers have had that experience on a regular basis -- i.e., more than once in my case ... it's a very expensive fuel XFER problem when looking for that bottom line as you selective jettison off the offending drop tank ...
Should also mention for the uninitiated that the Ongoing tanker would launch early enough to RDZ with Offgoing tanker during Cyclic Ops and relieve Offgoing tanker of any gas not used and ensure that he was "sweet".
They opened up the SR-71 at the March Field Museum this weekend. I managed to snap a couple:
I forgot to add the Naval Aviation tie-in:
It seems our Blackbird was performing a high mach outrun of a SAM (Surface to Air Missile) in 1987 and shelled a turbine blade. She outran the missile, but had to make an emergency landing at a Naval air station in the Key West area.
I forgot to add the Naval Aviation tie-in:
It seems our Blackbird was performing a high mach outrun of a SAM (Surface to Air Missile) in 1987 and shelled a turbine blade. She outran the missile, but had to make an emergency landing at a Naval air station in the Key West area.
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