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Kinda cold.


More like how costal folks don't know about loggers, sawmillers or farmers
dying.



It's not a thing in out local.


My Dad didn't make it through a days work, 51 years ago last month. (I was 2)
Few think about 2 piece truck wheels exploding.
It's real to our family.




Hope the crew has few lasting problems.
Other branches poke fun at the Coasties.
Those guys are hanging them out there all the time, to save others.
Nothing but respect for them from me.





Except for ones in little tight bike shorts.
They are just too cute to respect!😘

nothing cold about it , have lost friends and family with farming /logging mishaps ,watched when I was 11 yr old a guy lose a hand to a lock ring truck rim. had a good friend die when he turned a tractor over in a tator field, so nothing I posted was cold sorry about your dad

They were getting shoved straight into the Gulf. I don't understand exactly what it means, but a pilot friend of mine said they had to use something like 130% power.

Thanks, long time ago and I was young.
Only brought it up as an example.

Many folks RDGAS if it doesn't directly affect them.
There are still good people out there though.

Always wondered that too.


Turbines are different than piston engines, as long as you keep rpm you can dump fuel and make power...I think.

They are rated to produce a certain level of power continuously.
That's 100%.


They can handle more, intermittently.

Then military aircraft have a range of possible, but you really should stay out of it
because it's not good for the engine.

My perception, might be completely wrong.


Where are our military jet pilots?

With turbojets or turbofans you’ll have the following power settings (Navy terminology. AF may use different ones). They vary by engine.

Idle..where the engine normally stabilizes after start and while taxiing around, etc. Generally around 55-65% rpm.

Military…when you go to full power..100% +/- but without afterburner.

Max…throttle goes past a detent or “gate” with afterburner where the afterburner fuel pumps pump raw fuel into the exhaust stream to add energy/mass for additional thrust at the cost of lots of fuel (~1500 pounds per minute in an F-4)

Max continuous…can be defined by rpm or EGT (exhaust gas temperature) that you can use all day long until you run out of fuel.

Transients can be allowed for set time limits at the different settings

In the F-4 you could go from idle to full afterburner with no hesitation and the fuel control, through feedback loops, would prevent any overtemp or over-rev.

In the F-14A you had to be a little more judicious.