[pct-l] Jets and the PCT

[chancepctcdt at yahoo.com (Chance Money)]

  In the autumn of 1994 I was working as a civilian contractor at the military antenna farm at the north end of Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage Alaska. We were at the north end of the runway but off to the side about a half mile. I was up on a section of tower at about forty feet when I heard a pop pop pop pop sound. I turned to the source of the sound and first heard a huge bass note frooomp! then saw a gigantic, perfect ball of fire form. It was so hot I could feel the heat that far away. 
   
  Turned out that geese got sucked into both of the port side engines of a Boeing 707 AWAC (the plane with the radar mushroom thing on top). The plane crash landed on take off with a full load of fuel and 16 people on board totally destroying the plane and killing everyone. I never want to see anything like that again.
   
  Chance
  

Junaid Dawud <jdawud@yahoo.com> wrote: 'soft' or rotten rock might just pulverize instantly. 
A hard piece of granite would probably cause a massive
explosion.  You probably wouldn't want to be within
1000 ft of that hell storm.  I actually seem to recall
hearing a story a few years ago about some geese that
got sucked up into someones small jet engine.  The
engine jammed and exploded.  I guess the geese were
fanatics about human invasion of their air space,
kamikaze goose.

-------Junaid #41PCT2006
who loves geese and rocks, and really wants to take a
ride in a fighter jet.


--- Tortoise  wrote:

> I wonder what a well aimed and timed rock (or even a
> piece of gravel) 
> would do to a jet engine.
> 
> ----------
> Tortoise
> 
> I switched to Mac OSX rather than fight Windows
> Using Mozilla Thunderbird 
> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
> 
> hiker97@aol.com wrote:
> > I remember 40 years ago hiking on the PCT in the
> Sierras and the jets coming down to buzz us.  We
> would have to lay flat on the ground to try to miss
> the shock wave coming at us.  Of course, they did
> this on purpose when they caught backpackers out in
> the open.  Ha, ha, ha.
> >  
> > Then they would duck down in the Kern River trench
> to do a high speed escape.  Too much. 
> >  
> > Just memories of the trail of a by gone era.
> >  
> > Cheers, Switchback
> >  
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