Posted by wisbaker on December 08, 2013 at 17:00:28 from (173.30.33.15):
In Reply to: diesel gelled no more posted by jeremy in NE on December 08, 2013 at 16:40:11:
You're not the only one that has these problems. About 25 years ago I was stationed at KI Sawyer Air Force Base, just South of Marquette Michigan. It was January and we'd had 4 Bombers and 6 tankers deployed to Roosevelt Roads NAS in Puerto Rico, coming back to good old KISAFB and an expected daily high of 4 degrees. Seems the Navy doesn't use good old JP-4, they use a similar fuel but without the anti-gelling agent. One tanker came home on an in-flight emergency. The pilot chopped the engines on the port side to drop the wing and bank the aircraft, well the port engines kinda quit on her so she had to bring it home on two engines asymmetrical. Every thing else came back without incident but that darn Navy JP-5 turned into petroleum jelly on us, nothing that was deployed would motor. Had to empty every hanger we could to try to warm them, for the Aircraft we couldn't get inside we were splitting cowling and running every reddy heater we could get to warm engines. One of the Bomber crew chiefs got his bird to motor but with the trail of flame and little burning balls of gelled fuel spitting from the engine exhaust I'm guessing his EGT was probably above Tech Order limits but for some reason he could't hear us on the ground intercom. Of course if we didn't get them to motor we'd have to downgrade 10 sorties, wing commanders tend to get fired when they have to red X 1/3 of their birds.
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