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Ok I have no pictures however picture this in your mind. For those of you that have been to Shaw, AFB you know how big hangar 1200 (Phase Barn) is. Well this morning the foam fire suppression system activated. There are maybe seven jets inside in various states of disassembly and now you can't see them except for the top of the tails. I kid you not the foam is half to the top of the hangar. What a friggin mess.

Fender

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George Bernard Shaw

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Man thats gonna be a nasty cleanup!
I've helped clean a room about 15 x 30 that had a foam system go off in it and it weas bad, I cant imagine something as you describe!

I can only say I hope you have no part in cleaning this up!

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Man thats gonna be a nasty cleanup!
I've helped clean a room about 15 x 30 that had a foam system go off in it and it weas bad, I cant imagine something as you describe!

I can only say I hope you have no part in cleaning this up!


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No part in cleaning it up. We use airmen for that. LOL

Fender

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw

That happened somewhere else a few years ago, I remember reading about it in Av-Week lol what a mess!!!

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way I'm droppin Hamilton$

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Fender

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw

I've seen the bigger hangers(not at Shaw, but big hangers are big hangers), that's gotta be tough. And not only do you have to clean it up, you have to get it out of all the nooks and crannies on the jet, and then run your checks.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it sure ain't fun!

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Saw these pictures a while back.

<b>The Foam Monster That Ate Ellsworth Air Base</b>

http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_20064611181.asp

Does it look like what you had?

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Saw these pictures a while back.

<b>The Foam Monster That Ate Ellsworth Air Base</b>

http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_20064611181.asp

Does it look like what you had?

You're born, you keep your head down and you die. If you're lucky...
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He's drowning! <img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>
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Joking <i>almost</i> aside, if you just leave all that foam there..do you wind up with a hangar full of ravers? <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>

The quantity of foam aside, foam can't be as bad as the blue-green powder that Mcdonalds at least use to use to smother a grease fire.

Back in high school someone I knew who had a first or early job flipping burgers was playing with the plastic string attached to a pin used to activate the fire suppression system at a McD's grill, and he pulled it by accident. A huge pile of this blue-green powder fell onto the grill and himself, made a huge dust cloud drift through the kitchen, and started getting sucked out the vents and blowing onto cars in the parking lot. <img src=newicons/anim_lol.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Saw these pictures a while back.

<b>The Foam Monster That Ate Ellsworth Air Base</b>

http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/articles/military_photos_20064611181.asp

Does it look like what you had?

You're born, you keep your head down and you die. If you're lucky...
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Yep, only imagine several vipers covered with the stuff,

Fender

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
George Bernard Shaw

Had one go off here at Moody about two weeks ago. Had Foam all over the flightline. What a mess.

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Never saw that happen, But I wouldnt want too


Goose

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<b>The Foam Monster That Ate Ellsworth Air Base</b>

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This was an intentional test of the system...

http://www.ellsworth.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123019203