That has to be some firefighting technique, right? Right?!
What a half-dozen consenting airplanes do with each other behind closed doors (or from outside through open vents) is none of my business.
Yes, it’s Firefighting foam that prevents fire from getting oxygen
Yep. It’s to fight fuel fires, fuel floats on water, so you can’t just put it out with water, you need foam.
A lot of aircraft hangars have an automated foam system, like this.
Datacenters too.
I did training in a data center with this stuff (I think) once. They said if there is a fire hit the button then you have like ten seconds to leave the room before the oxygen goes bye bye.
That’s inert gas, not foam.
I remember touring a Strategic Air Command base and someone describing a Halon fire suppressant system as “for when the data is more important than any people in the room”.
Is the idea to choke the oxygen from the fire?
Yes, exactly.
F-16 needed to be squeaky clean for the upcoming inspection! 😭
(I think it was an accidental trigger of the fire system, yes XD)
looks nice, but could be very toxic depending on how old the system is.
The old version of this foam did contain hella much PFAS.
You can find it now in basically every groundwater around military airfields. And there are bunch of law suits from ex aircraft carrier crew about this because they where not told the foam is toxic and they had to clean up the foam without protection after fire drills.
Either that or it’s at one of those parties they advertise with an upside-down pineapple.
Good luck trying to fly away now Mr. Bond!
Tactical Ducky, you’re the one
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