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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:

So far, so good…


Unnhhhh… Guys?
(Note the camera platform)


About 15 feet of foam and still going strong…


Reached the camera platform and still going…


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:

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 | TrackBack