Originally Posted by johngreen"
ChristiaanJ
Your further statement ‘…any “fuel hammer” effect is nearly instantaneous…’ is however absolutely untrue and very misleading.
Point taken.
Although... I remember the F-14A prototype went down due to a similar (hydraulic system) failure on its second flight, not after x million flights/landings.
I'm still baffled by the number of holes in the cheese having to line up for this to happen for the first time.