From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: Banshee Bird Strikes
Date:	Thu, 8 Jun 1995 17:39:14 +0200

> Alternately, My father, an airman in Viet Nam, saw a firehose
>being sprayed through the running engine of an F-4 Phantom. It wouldn't
>flame out under those circumstances, but if it sucked down an intact
>sheet of water (like that when you splash a bucket on someone), it was
>all over. Weird.

Not really, if you use a fire hose the engine still gets air; if you use a
"sheet" of water you cut off its air supply completely, so the flame goes out.


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