Fuel dumping!

Keith Willshaw wrote:
"Ed Majden" wrote in message
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Some of you are jet jocks or ex-jet jocks. What can you tell me
about the practice of dumping fuel from a jet and the igniting this
dumped fuel by cutting in your afterburners? Wouldn't this be a
very risky practice? If not, why would this be done? On another
newsgroup, this is being used to explain a photograph taken by a
young fellow in the UK. The photograph was first explained to be
the entry of a meteorite in the upper atmosphere but now this is not
supported. Some are using this fuel dump ignition theory to explain
what was photographed. Your comments on this practice, if it
exists, would be appreciated.
Ed


The RAAF F-111's do this pretty regularly , I seem to recall one
did it over Sydney during the recent Olympics, that footage was
seen around the world.

As for why, well its pretty dammed spectacular is the main reason

Keith

It made at least one Oxford Mail newspaper in England when an F-111 did it
over Upper Heyford and what with some old thatched houses and corn fields
around it scared a few people.

Richard.