From:	Marc A Renouf <jormung@*****.UMICH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Banshee Bird Strikes
Date:	Fri, 9 Jun 1995 13:39:52 -0400

On Thu, 8 Jun 1995, Gurth wrote:

> > 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.

No, I grok the theory. It's just odd that airmen in Viet Nam
were so damn bored that they tried this stuff. :)

Marc