Our tax dollars hard at work...or should I say going up in smoke!
on 2004-Jul-31 23:58:04 Anonymous coward said
Dave
"Let's see, throw this switch-OH FUCK!!!"
on 2004-Sep-04 21:04:37 Anonymous coward said
Dan
Jesse James at the controls
on 2004-Sep-05 14:14:47 Anonymous coward said
Hydra
Control : What ever you do don't press the red button?
Pilot : Wut?! This red butto...BOOM
on 2004-Oct-12 16:12:07 Anonymous coward said
mb
Kick the tires and light the fires!
on 2004-Oct-15 00:08:19 Anonymous coward said
Chilipepper
not American tax dollars... is this a libertarian hangout?
on 2004-Oct-22 22:18:34 Anonymous coward said
HJ
Some of you folks need Recce training bad and seem to be hung up on tax dollars...why not cancel the blues and T-birds then...anyway this is an Aussie F-11. This trick isn't allowed in US by F-111 or F-14
on 2004-Oct-22 22:21:12 Anonymous coward said
HJ
Correction to above: Aussie F-111 not F-11- this was an airshow trick and prohibited in US (F-111 and F-14 both have P&W TF-30s and similar dump mast locations) Could get ugly if flames catch up!
on 2004-Nov-07 08:01:06 Anonymous coward said
Aussie Blue
I have somewhere a photo of this being done at night over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Looks GREAT
on 2004-Nov-12 22:49:00 Anonymous coward said
CanadaDave
US F-111s have been retired for over a decade, but they did do it as part of their air show routine before that. I saw it done at an air show back in the 80s.
on 2004-Dec-14 21:37:08 Anonymous coward said
Leeroy
The stupid Aussie airshow organisers think the public love this gag. It's not difficult, it's not clever, it does not demonstrate any aspect of the F-111's amazing performance. It's just a big wank. Intelligent Aussies (like me) are embarrassed by it.
on 2005-Jan-06 20:48:29 Anonymous coward said
Gumpster
Purge...purge...purge...damn it is getting warm in here...
on 2005-Jan-12 22:01:25 Anonymous coward said
cj5_pilot
I believe this is called a "blowtorch". Never saw a US F-111 do it, but heard the Aussies did it regularly.
on 2005-Feb-07 06:24:23 Anonymous coward said
Jim in Ozz
This is a favourite RAAF "pig-driver's" air-show,F1 grand prix display in Australia The F-111's are affectionally called"Pigs" by their drivers at RAAF Amberley
on 2005-Apr-21 13:35:04 Anonymous coward said
'Ol Pilot
I was Chief of Test for the F-111 during the early '70. All you had to do was dump fuel and light the burner(zone 5) on at least one engine, but usually we used two. This appears to be an F-111C. Longer wings were used on the C and FB models.
on 2005-Apr-28 15:46:38 Anonymous coward said
Phil Wyld
Intelligent Aussie?
does that sound likely guys?
on 2005-Jun-27 08:05:19 Anonymous coward said
QF666
Don't light a match near a pigs arse!!!!
on 2005-Jul-18 09:50:56 Anonymous coward said
BG
Never, ever add refreid beans to the fuel mixture!
on 2005-Sep-29 09:04:38 Anonymous coward said
FFR-31_Driver
HEY! No Aussie bashing! After all, they just came up with an autocannon that fires at 1 million RPM.
...
And what have YOU done lately?
on 2005-Nov-02 12:31:18 Anonymous coward said
American
Fire 1 million rounds per minute? At what?
on 2006-Jan-16 09:24:03 Anonymous coward said
This is why Aussie pilots are prohibited from eating spicy foods before f;light!!!!
Ben Waz Here
on 2006-Feb-16 17:13:58 Anonymous coward said
Alec
Thats a fart when the pilot of the other plane holds a match up to it.
on 2006-Feb-27 00:09:32 Anonymous coward said
ZANDERS
F-111, USING NEWEST AFTER-AFTER BURNING
on 2006-Mar-10 00:23:31 Anonymous coward said
Mac
Hey guys that think this is an F-111.............look closer, it's actually a GR-1 or Tornado as most know it, we had a German unit in NM when I was stationed there abck in 97'-01'. The F-111 has a long, narrow point at the nose, the Tornado is wider like the one you see here.
on 2006-Mar-21 10:45:26 Anonymous coward said
NP
Thats not ever a tornado!!! take a look at the air intakes, which are round on an F-111, but they are rectangular on a tornado.
on 2006-May-11 13:05:06 Anonymous coward said
flanker31
Sorry, folks, SOME of you got it almost correct... it IS an F111.. BUT, THIS particular one is the EF 111 Version.. check it out.. !!!
on 2006-May-14 10:04:38 Anonymous coward said
Baldy
nice pic lads, my guess is that this is AUP RF-111C A8-134 performing a dump and burn at the Avalon Air Show
on 2006-May-14 21:48:37 Anonymous coward said
Baldy
A8-143 bears the name of CO 82 Wing Gavin 'Leo' Davis. Its the Recce version of the pig, u can tell by the photo installation in the bomb bay. So to all those who think this is a GR-1 or EF-111, Guess again
on 2006-Oct-22 02:32:40 Anonymous coward said
Zero
for god's sake...
how can u ever say that's a Tornado ?
u have been a military fanboy for about what ? 10 minutes ?
on 2007-Jun-17 12:11:06 Anonymous coward said
West
i think its called "flick and blick"
on 2007-Aug-06 00:27:59 Anonymous coward said
Buster Hyman
Tornado...what a larf!!! U fool. Anyway, the Aussie roundel is quite clear on the upper wing & the RAAF do not operate EF-111's...(Oh, what a priceless forum!)
on 2007-Sep-06 11:36:13 Anonymous coward said
dav
hey john did you see my sigaret?
on 2007-Nov-12 13:29:11 Anonymous coward said
Me
Afterburner from Hell.
on 2008-Jan-26 23:11:27 Anonymous coward said
UNKNOWN
HEY THAT IS VERY STUPID AND FOR DORKS
on 2008-Jan-26 23:11:50 Anonymous coward said
UNKNOWN
ME IS AN ASSHOLE
on 2008-Feb-25 22:26:36 Anonymous coward said
someone
showoff
on 2008-Mar-03 00:24:09 Anonymous coward said
Thud Driver
I was at Nellis AFB when an F-11A did this at night down the Vegas Strip. He took off R/W 21, lost one of the underpooped TF-30s, and had to dump the fuel load before he ran out of airspeed & ideas..
on 2008-May-11 17:11:06 Anonymous coward said
......
wow.... ive done this b4. it probably waz a smoke thingy that caught on the thrusters thus.... u get that. if any1 waz flyin bhind him i feel srry 4 them
on 2010-May-26 15:09:58 Anonymous coward said
DrTracy
See the fuel dumping out of the tail? The U.S. Navy is smarter. They have a NATOPS prohibition about dumping fuel while in afterburner. I wonder why?
on 2011-Dec-30 00:25:25 Retards said
its an F-111F dumping fuel, and at full afterburner... FWOOSH instant day time!
on 2012-May-06 11:18:21 COdy said
Australian F1-11, now retired. Every year during Brisbane's River Fire festival a F1-11 would do a flyover Dump and Burn.... this is that picture....