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Yes the 101 had a hard light afterburner as opposed to the 104 that had a variable softer start AB. The boys doing runups could only do AB runups with the aircraft tied down with cables. One cable from each main gear to a common tie down ring. One day at Chatham, one cable broke and the aircraft did a complete 360 before the runup guy could chop the throttle and shut it down. It took the roof off the Econoline van that the other guys were in. No one injured, thankfully.

Another Chatham story was at the engine test cell. Due to a pin failure the J57 departed the test cell just as the afterburner was lit. It tumbled and mangled itself into a ball. The Sgt that was running it had a bit of a stutter problem and the story goes that it took him a couple of hours to get the story out. lol
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Back in the 80's, a N.W. Ab gas plant has 2 jet engines that are used in the gas processing procedure somewhere. The boys at the plant were doing a scheduled engine replacement at a turn around and had one of the new engines buttoned down and were ready for a test run...however someone screwed up and wired the un-buttoned engine to the firing mechanisms. When it fired instead of the right one, it went through 2 metal buildings and cartwheeled out across the pipe yard before stopping. When that engine was returned to the Pratt& Whitney repair depot in Mont., they claimed it was the worst damaged engine they had ever seen.
 
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Please mop up your drool on the way out.
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Full-Reuenthal. Thats just about 1 hour from where I live. Been there many times. The vehicle collection is huge. Also they have special exhibitions every few months. The first time I was there it was about the stay behind-units and their weapons depots in Austria, it was fantastic.
 

I have to admit I had heard of Japanese cannibalism of prisoners before, and dissecting people alive in China, but had not heard if it being done to American prisoners. To be dissected alive, and have your liver pulled out so others can eat is just beyond imagination.
 

Canada was supposed to receive these instead of the garbage CF-5. Uncle Sam could have gifted 200 or so of American built F5's lol. But Canadair had to have the last word with the assistance of Hellyer. Hellyer was a former Northrop engineer. How much of a bribe didn't he get for this non conflict of interest?
 
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