[ARC5] A10 Warthog

[Peter Gottlieb]

Unburnt fuel does not produce thrust!


Peter

> On Jul 4, 2018, at 8:28 PM, Mkdorney via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> It smoked because their GE jet engines were not the most fuel efficient. The “smoke” was unburnt JP-4. When afterburners were lit, this fuel was ignited. 
> 
> Mark
> WW2RDO
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>>> On Jul 4, 2018, at 1:59 PM, Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 3 Jul 2018 at 18:13, jeepp wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jack and others,
>>> The Six was an outstanding aircraft.  The B model being slightly faster than the single-seat A 
>>> model.  The two types of AA missles and the AIR-2A special weapon did (could) do the job.  At 
>>> Langley in the 70's, they put a gun pod on several airframes and they turned out to be truly good 
>>> at ACM.  As I recall, they fought against  F-4's and came out on top half the time.  No smoke, 
>>> either...
>> 
>> As I understand it, no one ever figured out why the F-4 smoked.
>> 
>> Ken W7EKB
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