United States Coast Guard crewmen on duty at the Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Alabama, were shocked to find their hangar full of high-expansion foam on Sunday evening.
According to Lt. Earl Roberts, the Mobile Aviation Training Center Public Relations Officer, the foam was activated due to a fault in the system.
A "fault".
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Some female was all in a huff about some slight by some other female?
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"Unfortunately, the security camera 'malfunctioned'..."
That happened to an Army Guard unit at Dobbins AFB back in the 90's. A pipe that transferred the foam burst filling the hanger in 14' of foam. All 8 Blackhawks were sent to Depot for complete rebuilds and it took 16 months to get them all back.
ReplyDeleteIt's happened a few times here and there and any aircraft exposed to it have corrosion problems forever.
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Read somewhere that the foam pretty much destroys any aircraft that it covers. So why bother with foam at all.
ReplyDeleteTo keep the fuel in the aircraft from igniting and burning down the hanger as well?
DeleteYes AFFF smothers the fire, it's nasty stuff but works
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Some years back a new crews camera lights where the correct frequency to fool the fire system into thinking there was a fire in the hanger and set off the foam suppression. It was a CG Air Station, I'm thinking Houston...
ReplyDeleteNo matter how tempting it is - DO NOT push the Big Red Button!
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Engine rooms of most current commercial ships use a mist of plain water.
Development video shows:
* traditional powders and foams could require an hour to *SLOW* an engine room fire.
* ultra-fine high-pressure mist instantly terminates all flame in an identical closed space.
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One method can require many months in dry-dock -- if space is available -- to re-build entire sections of the ship before insurance underwriters allow it to return to service.
The other method can have the ship up-n-running in a few hours *By The Crew Aboard*.
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In addition to corrosion from those fire-fighting chemicals, the ship-board crew often cannot fight the fire because of the potential for suffocation.
Those chemicals displace oxygen.
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https://youtu.be/tKXiNdJMhgA?si=XY0sf5aKON1tYXdY