PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - US Army To Update Chinook Fleet
View Single Post
Old 17th Jan 2019, 20:16
  #9 (permalink)  
SASless
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Downeast
Age: 75
Posts: 18,290
Received 517 Likes on 215 Posts
I was extremely lucky that day and my burns and resulting scars are pretty minor....but were no laughing matter at the time.

Seeing your Nomex Gloves burn off your hands and followed by the backs of your hands bubble up and burst is something that I could have gone without.

In my incident, the Utility Hydraulic System, 1500 PSI, held quite a bit of fluid that was hot already, and when two of the three lines connected to my Brake Pedal got severed by a .51 Caliber Round....the atomized hydraulic fluid ignited.

The fire burned until the contents. had emptied.

The chin bubble had either shattered...or melted....or both due to the projectile passing through the aircraft and the slip stream fanned the fire.

Which made for an interesting few minutes.

Time does drag while you are sat in a fire playing the Wieiner at a Wiener Roast.
SASless is online now