They don't use petrol.
I thought "petrol" was a generic word for "fuel" and used the word in that
context. Of course they like JP-5 best, but will run on many other flavors
too.

If "petrol" actually refers to "gasoline" only, then I'll take the bust.

Wasn't trying to be a "know it all"- it's just the original question was
pretty much answered by looking at the picture (at least I thought it was).

--
Larry
AECS (AW/SW/MTS)
USN Retired

"landbound now" :-)





"fudog50" wrote in message
...
Hey John, I'll bet Larry has drank and worn more Tomcat "petrol" than
you ever will, and I'm pretty dam sure he knows what JP-4, JP-5 and
JP-8 is, so he can call it gas/petrol/fuel, whatever he wants!!!! I'm
with you Larry, kinda hard not to be a smart ass about that question,
ain't it?.... I used to shoot mode 4 while the Tomcats were in this
"cat retract" profile, always had bad results from the ground plane of
the big metal carrier deck and the lower IFF antenna, had to wait
till they went to "cat extend" to get a good shoot with the APM-424. ,
same with the E2/C2's.


On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 15:23:55 +0000, John Mullen
wrote:

Larry wrote:

It never occurred to me, is the ground clearing enough for
the Tomcat to land on an aircraft carrier with fuel tanks
like this?

I'll try to refrain from being wise (although I was really tempted on
this
one).

Question: Isn't that photo taken on a carrier? Answer: Yes

Question: So how did it get there? Answer: Landed there (yes, with
those
tanks).

They do appear rather large, but the shock strut only retracts a little
more
(on landing impact) than shown in the photo.

Them there Tomcats are VERY thirsty so they need all the petrol they
can
git!

They don't use petrol.

John