Torch_jpg_33649

Torch.jpg.33649

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on 2004-Jul-20 10:10:38 Matt Bailey said

Our tax dollars hard at work...or should I say going up in smoke!
on 2004-Jul-31 23:58:04 Anonymous coward said

Dave
"Let's see, throw this switch-OH FUCK!!!"
on 2004-Sep-04 21:04:37 Anonymous coward said

Dan
Jesse James at the controls
on 2004-Sep-05 14:14:47 Anonymous coward said

Hydra
Control : What ever you do don't press the red button?

Pilot : Wut?! This red butto...BOOM
on 2004-Oct-12 16:12:07 Anonymous coward said

mb
Kick the tires and light the fires!
on 2004-Oct-15 00:08:19 Anonymous coward said

Chilipepper
not American tax dollars... is this a libertarian hangout?
on 2004-Oct-22 22:18:34 Anonymous coward said

HJ
Some of you folks need Recce training bad and seem to be hung up on tax dollars...why not cancel the blues and T-birds then...anyway this is an Aussie F-11. This trick isn't allowed in US by F-111 or F-14
on 2004-Oct-22 22:21:12 Anonymous coward said

HJ
Correction to above: Aussie F-111 not F-11- this was an airshow trick and prohibited in US (F-111 and F-14 both have P&W TF-30s and similar dump mast locations) Could get ugly if flames catch up!
on 2004-Nov-07 08:01:06 Anonymous coward said

Aussie Blue
I have somewhere a photo of this being done at night over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Looks GREAT
on 2004-Nov-12 22:49:00 Anonymous coward said

CanadaDave
US F-111s have been retired for over a decade, but they did do it as part of their air show routine before that. I saw it done at an air show back in the 80s.
on 2004-Dec-14 21:37:08 Anonymous coward said

Leeroy
The stupid Aussie airshow organisers think the public love this gag. It's not difficult, it's not clever, it does not demonstrate any aspect of the F-111's amazing performance. It's just a big wank. Intelligent Aussies (like me) are embarrassed by it.
on 2005-Jan-06 20:48:29 Anonymous coward said

Gumpster
Purge...purge...purge...damn it is getting warm in here...
on 2005-Jan-12 22:01:25 Anonymous coward said

cj5_pilot
I believe this is called a "blowtorch". Never saw a US F-111 do it, but heard the Aussies did it regularly.
on 2005-Feb-07 06:24:23 Anonymous coward said

Jim in Ozz
This is a favourite RAAF "pig-driver's" air-show,F1 grand prix display in Australia The F-111's are affectionally called"Pigs" by their drivers at RAAF Amberley
on 2005-Apr-21 13:35:04 Anonymous coward said

'Ol Pilot
I was Chief of Test for the F-111 during the early '70. All you had to do was dump fuel and light the burner(zone 5) on at least one engine, but usually we used two. This appears to be an F-111C. Longer wings were used on the C and FB models.
on 2005-Apr-28 15:46:38 Anonymous coward said

Phil Wyld
Intelligent Aussie?
does that sound likely guys?
on 2005-Jun-27 08:05:19 Anonymous coward said

QF666
Don't light a match near a pigs arse!!!!
on 2005-Jul-18 09:50:56 Anonymous coward said

BG
Never, ever add refreid beans to the fuel mixture!
on 2005-Sep-29 09:04:38 Anonymous coward said

FFR-31_Driver
HEY! No Aussie bashing! After all, they just came up with an autocannon that fires at 1 million RPM.

...

And what have YOU done lately?
on 2005-Nov-02 12:31:18 Anonymous coward said

American
Fire 1 million rounds per minute? At what?
on 2006-Jan-16 09:24:03 Anonymous coward said

This is why Aussie pilots are prohibited from eating spicy foods before f;light!!!!
Ben Waz Here
on 2006-Feb-16 17:13:58 Anonymous coward said

Alec
Thats a fart when the pilot of the other plane holds a match up to it.
on 2006-Feb-27 00:09:32 Anonymous coward said

ZANDERS
F-111, USING NEWEST AFTER-AFTER BURNING
on 2006-Mar-10 00:23:31 Anonymous coward said

Mac
Hey guys that think this is an F-111.............look closer, it's actually a GR-1 or Tornado as most know it, we had a German unit in NM when I was stationed there abck in 97'-01'. The F-111 has a long, narrow point at the nose, the Tornado is wider like the one you see here.
on 2006-Mar-21 10:45:26 Anonymous coward said

NP
Thats not ever a tornado!!! take a look at the air intakes, which are round on an F-111, but they are rectangular on a tornado.
on 2006-May-11 13:05:06 Anonymous coward said

flanker31
Sorry, folks, SOME of you got it almost correct... it IS an F111.. BUT, THIS particular one is the EF 111 Version.. check it out.. !!!
on 2006-May-14 10:04:38 Anonymous coward said

Baldy
nice pic lads, my guess is that this is AUP RF-111C A8-134 performing a dump and burn at the Avalon Air Show
on 2006-May-14 21:48:37 Anonymous coward said

Baldy
A8-143 bears the name of CO 82 Wing Gavin 'Leo' Davis. Its the Recce version of the pig, u can tell by the photo installation in the bomb bay. So to all those who think this is a GR-1 or EF-111, Guess again
on 2006-Oct-22 02:32:40 Anonymous coward said

Zero
for god's sake...
how can u ever say that's a Tornado ?
u have been a military fanboy for about what ? 10 minutes ?
on 2007-Jun-17 12:11:06 Anonymous coward said

West
i think its called "flick and blick"
on 2007-Aug-06 00:27:59 Anonymous coward said

Buster Hyman
Tornado...what a larf!!! U fool. Anyway, the Aussie roundel is quite clear on the upper wing & the RAAF do not operate EF-111's...(Oh, what a priceless forum!)
on 2007-Sep-06 11:36:13 Anonymous coward said

dav
hey john did you see my sigaret?
on 2007-Nov-12 13:29:11 Anonymous coward said

Me
Afterburner from Hell.
on 2008-Jan-26 23:11:27 Anonymous coward said

UNKNOWN
HEY THAT IS VERY STUPID AND FOR DORKS
on 2008-Jan-26 23:11:50 Anonymous coward said

UNKNOWN
ME IS AN ASSHOLE
on 2008-Feb-25 22:26:36 Anonymous coward said

someone
showoff
on 2008-Mar-03 00:24:09 Anonymous coward said

Thud Driver
I was at Nellis AFB when an F-11A did this at night down the Vegas Strip. He took off R/W 21, lost one of the underpooped TF-30s, and had to dump the fuel load before he ran out of airspeed & ideas..
on 2008-May-11 17:11:06 Anonymous coward said

......
wow.... ive done this b4. it probably waz a smoke thingy that caught on the thrusters thus.... u get that. if any1 waz flyin bhind him i feel srry 4 them
on 2010-May-26 15:09:58 Anonymous coward said

DrTracy
See the fuel dumping out of the tail? The U.S. Navy is smarter. They have a NATOPS prohibition about dumping fuel while in afterburner. I wonder why?
on 2011-Dec-30 00:25:25 Retards said

its an F-111F dumping fuel, and at full afterburner... FWOOSH instant day time!
on 2012-May-06 11:18:21 COdy said

Australian F1-11, now retired. Every year during Brisbane's River Fire festival a F1-11 would do a flyover Dump and Burn.... this is that picture....

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