AW1Steve -> RE: !!!!!! DAERHT - ITNA EHT (5/23/2008 7:34:29 PM)
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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers You gotta love an airplane that leaks fuel all over the ground because the skin is not hot enough yet to seal the fuel tanks[:D] Like the SR-71? It had the opposite problem. As the skin cooled , it leaked . I recall seeing one land at Mildenhall. I thought the plane was leaking , but was told by a maintainer , "no that's normal". Scarey. Especially since they had a tendency to "drive it right into the hanger". [X(] Same problem - it needed to be very hot to keep a seal on the tanks... leaked when on the ground... waiting to take off, or (from your story) on landing. iirc, i don't think it was regular jet fuel - it had a higher flash point so it wasn't as dangerous. No , it was an exotic type that needed a special KC-135 tanker.A KC-135Q , which carried JP-7.
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