ORIGINAL: Vincent
ORIGINAL: Gary Arthur
ORIGINAL: snobird
James it would be helpful if you explained in more detail what caused the problems. With the hawk turbine shut down, did you not have a FOD screen ? What problems were cause by flying off the grass ? We all could benefit
Many jets with low intakes would suck in enough grass to make a bird nest in front of the turbine. You could smell burning grass whenn some jets were taking off from ingesting grass clippings.
Gary
Are you saying that on one taxi out and take off run the jet collected enough fod to kill the motor or was it a result of many flights ?
Vin...
I know of 1 F-16 that this happened on the first take-off.