whisleing sound

[tomgoodman]

"Super Tweet"

Alright, 'fess up. Who among us has "switched off the engines" to conserve fuel??

For max range on a clean A-37, we'd climb to 25000 ft. (it was unpressurized), and shut down one engine. There was even a checklist page for it. With both engines it would go much higher---for one A-10 photo chase mission, the pilots prebreathed oxygen and went up to 35000 ft. The purpose was to see if an experimental Warthog Windshield Washer (for removing gun gas residue), would operate up there.

 

[CrewDawg]

Its the actuator that opens the nozzle.

Former Viperdriver

What he said!

Former Viper Crew Chief

 

[Captain X]

Scrap --

Didn't the awesome ground instructors tell you?

Even the Boeing's have chemtrail generators....that's actually what the Flaps UP and lights at 18K are for (2 conditions must be met).

That wasn't on the systems val.

X

 

[JungleJett]

You sure it was whistling noise and not a whining noise? It was a Viper after all...










Disclaimer for ScrapDog...this was a joke.

 

[jetjock6]

[SIZE=+1]What's in the chemtrails, and why are they spraying us? We wish we knew. There are only a few planes in the world that have the equipment to analyze the spray mix and can get to the CT altitudes, clearance must be obtained to fly into the trails and money must be raised for the $22,000 per day plane rental fee.[/SIZE]
Plane rental $22,000 per day...
The look on the controller's face when you ask for clearance to fly into chemtrails...priceless

 

[Scrapdog]

You sure it was whistling noise and not a whining noise? It was a Viper after all...










Disclaimer for ScrapDog...this was a joke.

Whew - thanks for the heads up! By the way - you don't have to capitilize the d.

 

[Scrapdog]

Scrap --

Didn't the awesome ground instructors tell you?

Even the Boeing's have chemtrail generators....that's actually what the Flaps UP and lights at 18K are for (2 conditions must be met).

That wasn't on the systems val.

X

Ground instructors aren't too bad - I've quickly learned not to ask them anything remotely concerned with actual flying though. The 737 has flaps? Sh!t, no wonder why I kept going so fast on final! I was trying to make it look like the same speeds as the F-16.

Take care brother, we'll have to catch a beer together again!

 

[bandit110]

Mystery solved.
http://www.jcwhitney.com/autoparts/...11+10201+600010347/c-10101/TID-8010179/VT-sch

 

[Deuce130]

Alright, 'fess up. Who among us has "switched off the engines" to conserve fuel??

Thought about it in a MC-130 during OEF. The helos were running late and fuel was going to be tight for us. We were up around FL 230 at max endurance and thought about shutting down one engine to save fuel. Our 3-eng service ceiling however was around 180 at the time, so the extra fuel flow on the three running engines to maintain 18,000 balanced out the fuel flow on all four at 230, so we left it running. I've heard that P-3's sometime shut down one or even two engines to save fuel over the water. As for the chem stuff we drop out the back, well, if I tell you I'd have to kill you.

 

[bssthound]

As for the chem stuff we drop out the back, well, if I tell you I'd have to kill you.

To further hijack the thread, I can't tell you how many idiots we've had email us or corner us at airshows to tell us that when we're flying a hurricane we should drop a nuke in the eye. One of our A/Cs, after having his name in the paper got a long, rambling, incoherent letter to that effect from someone who is now in confinement for a long, long time.

 

[dtfl]

To further hijack the thread, I can't tell you how many idiots we've had email us or corner us at airshows to tell us that when we're flying a hurricane we should drop a nuke in the eye. One of our A/Cs, after having his name in the paper got a long, rambling, incoherent letter to that effect from someone who is now in confinement for a long, long time.

The blast overpressure would certainly dissipate the storm though.
There are a few dropsondes I wouldnt trust with rigging a nuke though....it would detonate in the back...or when it blew up, pretty flowers would come out.
Or the drops would be engaged in lovey time and forget to arm it ;-)

 

[Weasel Keeper]

A whistling sound isn't going to be caused by the exhaust nozzle actuators. That sounds more like what it is...actuators actuating. The sound of the actuators will only take a second or two at a time at the most.

The whistling sound is just the wind blowing over the extended gear, speedbrakes, etc.

 

[SSDD]

I don't know. A few days ago there was a post started by someone who said on an interview that if the wx went below mins, he would shut down an engine to conserve fuel...you just never know.

Can't say that I've spent any time watching F16's doing pattern work, but could the sound come from the gear doors?