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To: rlmorel

Roger. The first thing I thought of when I read the headline was, “Do they not do FOD walks?” I wasn’t a jet mechanic, but an electronics contractor working for the Air Force and its contractors, and even I knew about the dangers of FOD to jet engines.


22 posted on 12/02/2021 11:27:59 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: backwoods-engineer
Heh, you don't hear FOD out here in the civilian world much.

I was watching a fun video by a former F-14 pilot (Ward Carroll at Ward Carroll F-14 Tomcat Channel who has a boatload of entertaining material out there, and one of them is a grin-worthy video called 21 Cringeworthy Errors in the Movie Top Gun" and this link takes you right to the part which made me laugh about FOD...:)

If you are an inveterate aviation enthusiast like I am, it is a lot of fun to watch these videos!

24 posted on 12/02/2021 12:10:43 PM PST by rlmorel (If the Biden Administration was only stupid or incompetent, some actions would benefit the USA.)
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