Looking for pictures of airplanes covered in dust

[Shawn Coyle]

Or ice. or any other contamination that might affect the performance or flying qualities.
I realize I'm leaving myself open for some pretty strange pictures, but it will be fun to see what comes up.

[ross_M]

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmg3q4BC7m1qz82gvo1_500.jpg

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTNWjSHKZw8aNlbZc0uCZmFEff3cY6xQDYbc0FX1B6 GX-Df2HzKJbof6Yi3

http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/images/12/2011/11/05b15dd0c409dcec888ae832772130a0.jpg


http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/photo/8765837.cms

Courtesy: Google

[compressor stall]

http://www.aopa.org/images/whatsnew/newsitems/2005/050103ice.jpg

[EEngr]

ross_M. Do you know what happened to that MD-11? Was this tiping due entirely to the ash (I assume) accumulation?

I have heard stories about odd MD-11 balance/control trim problems. But are they actually that tail heavy? They don't strike me as having particularly large horizontal stabilizers, so I wonder about whether a larger ash accumulation aft caused this.

[Castle Don]

That's actually a DC10.

It happened at Clark AFB in the Philippines during the Pinatuabo eruption I think. Someone from World can chime in with the correct info.

[Capt. Inop]

ross_M. Do you know what happened to that MD-11? Was this tiping due entirely to the ash (I assume) accumulation?

As Castle Don said it was during the 1991 eruption of Pinatubo.

I guess the seismic activity that close to the volcano was strong enough to tip it on its tail.

[ross_M]

Sorry, I don't know much about the incident details. Maybe R. L. Rieger reads pprune if we are lucky! :)

Heavy ashfall from the June 15, 1991, eruption of Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines caused this World Airways DC-10 to set on its tail. About 4 cu km of ash was erupted on June 15. It accumulated to depths of 10-15 cm at this airfield at the Cubi Point Naval Air Station, 40 km SSW of Pinatubo.

Photo by R.L. Rieger, 1991 (U.S. Navy).

[ross_M]

Some more details:

Aircraft landed at Cubi
Point Naval Air Station
on June 14, 1991, just
prior to start of major
eruption. Up to 6 in of
ash accumulated on
aircraft, including
wings and horizontal
stabilizer, and caused it
to tilt back on the tail.
Weight of ash was
approximately 32 lb/ft
2
.
Aircraft suffered some
damage to exterior of
tail fuselage, rear
pressure bulkhead, and APU compartment.

Report on the volcanic incident (http://www.preventionweb.net/files/3000_USGS2.pdf)

[cwatters]

MiG-25 hidden in sand in Iraq. Presumably when they burried them they intended to fly them again.

http://www.rb-29.net/html/03relatedstories/03.09relcontinfo/relcontscans/MiG001.jpg

http://www.rb-29.net/html/03relatedstories/03.09relcontinfo/relcontscans/MiG004.jpg

From..
Related Stories, News from Iraq, The MiG Dig (http://www.rb-29.net/html/03relatedstories/03.09relcontinfo/09.37.nwsfmirqmigdig.htm)

[Shawn Coyle]

Thanks - keep 'em coming.

[EEngr]

http://www.kowabunga.org/images/pictures/military_aviation/blackbird_iced1.jpg

[con-pilot]

Sadly I did not take any pictures of this, but to be honest I didn't think of it at the time, I was more concerned about other things at the time.

Park a brand new white corporate jet, a Falcon 50EX in this case, on the ramp at Beijing, China for three weeks and when you come back, it is brown, from the pollution in the air.

This is what it looked like when I first parked it;

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c246/con-pilot/0840400.jpg

Now imagine all the white color, now the color of mud and you've got it.

I was able to have it cleaned in Singapore a couple of days later.