April 15, 2006

A sea of foam

Ran into this at BoingBoing but they pointed to a chat forum with a few images. I tracked it down to Strategy Page which has 14 images of the "event" Ellsworth AFB wanted to test a Fire Fighting system in a hanger. Their test was to actually run the foaming system for a few seconds. Their only problem was that the test did not go as planned:
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So far, so good...

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Unnhhhh... Guys?
(Note the camera platform)

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About 15 feet of foam and still going strong...

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Reached the camera platform and still going...

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Of course, it all has to go somewhere...
I have not been able to find any reports about this in the media. Probably not something that they would want bandied about. For the full set of images, visit here: StrategyPage's Military Photos where you can find lots of very cool images such as this one:
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A C-17 Globemaster III parts the skies over western South Carolina during a training mission on Feb. 2, 2003.
Posted by DaveH at April 15, 2006 10:05 PM
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http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_200471421.asp

The Ronald Reagan decontaminating. Now there's a drill I don't want to be part of: "Hey, try landing while were decontaminating."

Posted by: Al at April 18, 2006 1:45 PM
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