PICTURES: Finnish F-18 engine check reveals effects of volcanic dust

Flightglobal.com ^ | 16/04/2010 | Craig Hoyle

[Paleo Conservative]

[Travis McGee]

God hiccups and all of man’s vaunted high technology falls into the scrap heap.

[battlecry]

That is a very light looking F-18. Didn’t know ash could make it lose an engine.

[JoSixChip]

Could this be developed into some kind of weapon to prevent air assaults?

[Paleo Conservative]

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[Zhang Fei]

No real surprise - I expect this would be like having the engine ingest ground glass.

[SJSAMPLE]

Decades ago, the US Army Chemical Corps investigated chemical smoke that would inhibit combustion in engines. I don’t know if anything ever came of it.

[Paleo Conservative]

British Airways Flight 9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9

[rahbert]

That’s a BAE Hawk trainer.

[John-Irish]

Thats an F-18? I thought the engines were at the rear.

[steve86]

Is that the BAE air-sampling trainer?

[M Kehoe]

Good afternoon.

Wrong picture.

5.56mm

[Blackhawk]

Could this be developed into some kind of weapon to prevent air assaults?

"Micro-Dimensional, High Density, High Dispersal Flak"

[fishtank]

“”September 2009 saw City Of Edinburgh take on a fresh significance when the environmental campaign group 10:10 bought the fuselage of the plane and had it converted into thousands of 10:10 tags. The tags, made in the shape of the campaign’s logo, are worn as necklaces or bracelets and are used to raise funds and awareness of 10:10’s work, primarily to persuade individuals, organizations and businesses to reduce their carbon emissions by 10% in 2010. On 7 April 2010, the process was documented in a news feature shown on BBC Scotland.[11]””

[Paleo Conservative]

It’s a picture of the BAE Systems Hawk jet trainer also mentioned in the story. All the pictures are from Flightglobal.com.

[Paleo Conservative]

I saw that. Mega Barf Alert needed.

[Paleo Conservative]

It probably is.

[JoSixChip]

"Micro-Dimensional, High Density, High Dispersal Flak"

MdHd² ?

[M Kehoe]

...also mentioned in the story.

Do you think I read these threads!?

8^)

5.56mm

[A.A. Cunningham]

Wrong picture.

Incorrect

One of its BAE Systems Hawk jet trainers also flew from Kauhava air base twice yesterday carrying an air sampling pod which collected dust from the atmosphere at various altitudes.