How the heck does someone tag the inside of a jet engine?

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thatCdnplaneguy@reddit

Maintenance personal. And it’s probably wiped into the soot with a finger, so it will take time to be covered over. Think finger art on a dirty car.

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weaseltorpedo@reddit

Know what'd be cool? Like an F-82 twin mustang but F-16's instead.

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RaptorFire22@reddit

You see, a pimp's love is different from that of a square

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kdorfman1019@reddit

Snort laughed so bad Brawndo came out my nose. Now there are electrolytes all over the floor

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bigloser42@reddit

Electrolytes, it’s what floors crave!

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dinnerisbreakfast@reddit

You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl's Jr.

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celestial_gardener@reddit

Don't worry, score. Plenty of tards out there leading reeeeeeally kick-ass lives. My first wife was tarded; she's a pilot now.

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betabry@reddit

Don’t worry though, someday they can grow up to be pilots and fly this plane.

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Beginning_Ad_6616@reddit

Both jets use or have used different variants of the F100-PW or the F110-GE…so they’re not wrong.

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WhistlingKyte@reddit

Don’t they both use the GE? I think I remember seeing a list of all of the aircraft it’s installed in and seeing Tomcat B as well as Eagle C on that list.

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GooseDentures@reddit

No. F110 is only used on the F-16 and the charity project that is the F-15EX.

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Mr_Engineering@reddit

Both the F-15 and F-16 use the same engine, the Pratt & Whitney F100.

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KeystoneRattler@reddit

Can’t wait for the Zoomies to get into a purse fight over here. Or is it an ascot fight? Either way I’ve got my popcorn popping.

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NectariiCh@reddit

F-16 is easily recognized because it has one engine, while a lot of other aircraft, such as f-15, f-18 and f-22 have two.

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thatCdnplaneguy@reddit

F-16 is a small, single engine, lightweight fighter, the F-15 is a large, twin engined, air superiority fighter.

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JoeM5952@reddit

Usually augmenter art is a silver/welders pencil. Not too much soot on the back of the bearing cover.

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BoardButcherer@reddit

Or this.

Can stick around for years if you put it somewhere that everybody else is afraid to touch.

No further comment.

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Ok-Explanation-4659@reddit

I am a crew chief for F-15’s. This is one of the most real illustrations of maintenance fr

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teenytinypeener@reddit

They don’t even know about all of the hidden penises too

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My god so the saga of shafts does extend into the aviation industry. Just left carpentry for aviation and I’ve been shattered assuming that these devious forms of art will be long forgotten by myself.

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UGDirtFarmer@reddit

Look up yoke me daddy on instagram for hidden devious airplane art

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corvus66a@reddit

Crew chief of a F4 here. Can confirm.

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Lyuseefur@reddit

I have questions

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00owl@reddit

Those are my favorite kind of marker for ironwork

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HeSaysYouFishPoorly@reddit

It's just regular chalkboard chalk. We use it for marking things that need inspection or reapair because pencil causes hotspots and marker doesn't wipe off easily. I was never the artist but I've seen some pretty intricate art are these heatshields. It was most likely done during the engins last backshop vist and it will stay there pretty much forever until someone cleans it. My current unit doesn't allow it because of an incident that ended up on the Air Force AMN/NCO/SNCO Facebook page, but some units allow "morale" and every engine has a name.

Source: 9 year engine troop

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thatCdnplaneguy@reddit

Thanks for the clarification! I would have assumed chalk wouldn’t have lasted right near the afterburner. And I can see how something that’s not public friendly can be left in there.

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One_pop_each@reddit

When I’d do engine bay inspections before installs on 16’s, I would always get excited to see the shit written by oily fingers on the intake walls.

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Snoo_96179@reddit

This. And we don the bunny suits then go on in. I used to tag up the wings and training weapons as well. The load toads did not appreciate it, pilots got a chuckle.

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sciphyr@reddit

It was personal? How so?

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thatCdnplaneguy@reddit

Touche..fixed

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sciphyr@reddit

:D

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gardenfella@reddit

Usually when the engines aren't running

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800mgVitaminM@reddit

Usually.

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hopfot@reddit

I've never seen an F-16 with 2 engines.

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KilllerWhale@reddit

It's an F-32

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dingo1018@reddit

It's hot swappable, but you should really let it cool down before you swap it in.

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Bhaaldukar@reddit

That's what leather gloves are for

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BriefCollar4@reddit

Cold hot swappable?

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KEPD-350@reddit

One in reserve if the other one is busy compressor stalling.

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mevman44@reddit

Wrong sub, you’re looking for r/shittyaskflying

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NotReallyARedditor6@reddit

Shit this was at SkyDrive London wasn’t it? I was gonna go today and realized I hadnt actually bought tickets yet and they were sold out. :/

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squirtleturtle79@reddit (OP)

Yep, first time Ive been to an airshow. This is definetly gonna be a yearly thing for me now.

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SnoGoose@reddit

Engine guy here; If you ever get the hankering to do this, use chalk and nothing else. Everything else is bad, very bad.

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oojiflip@reddit

How so? My assumption would have been that it would just be burned off by the airflow and heat, but I guess it could melt onto the metal and cause issues long term?

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Anonawesome1@reddit

I've been told sharpie burns or oxidizes into the metal so it's very permanent, and graphite in pencils will burn through the metal.

Haven't tested it, but yes we only use chalk unless it's a dumb fuck crew chief with a grease pencil. That also becomes permanent.

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SnoGoose@reddit

Chalk is the most common thing spelled out to make markings in the hot section. Anything else would contaminate the metal leading to failure. There is a specific Technical Order that specifies what can be used to mark in the hot sections of jet engines USAF T.O. 2-1-111

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oojiflip@reddit

Interesting, thanks!

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MaxDaClog@reddit

Two scab patch repairs on a certain vulcan.. one shaped like a cock and balls, the other in the shape of a vulcan. The perpetrators insisted that they technically met the intent of the SRM. Nice try, still got a bollocking.

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Blackhawk004@reddit

Crew chiefs and maintenance do it all the time! Every Blackhawk, Huey, Kiowa and Lakota I ever worked on has some sort of “tag” from me in it.

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Quiet-Shaman@reddit

there was a f16 i fueled at work a while back with doodle bob in the engine i laughed so hard

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wittjoker11@reddit

Pro tip: it’s considerably easier if the engine is not running.

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SimplyIncredible_@reddit

very carefully

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No_Size_1765@reddit

arnt you not supposed to photo that

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AccomplishedString12@reddit

Its an airshow bud…

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squirtleturtle79@reddit (OP)

Given its at an airshow and the pilot who saw me didnt care I doubt its too big of a deal.

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AceCombat9519@reddit

Chalk marks end in post here they say it's done for maintenance

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slogive1@reddit

Well usually it involves paint.

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Jay467@reddit

Lol, the crew chief catching I's and E's that did that in this jet is probably pretty proud of their work.

Once, my jet (F-16s, relevant to the story) was loaned out to our sister squadron where my buddy worked and he ended up crewing it while they had it. He took a grease pencil and hid a ton of dick drawings in clever spots all over the thing, I was cleaning them off for days (weeks?) after the fact. When the jet came back to us, he warned me about it too - wouldn't you know, the first time I went to launch the thing and the pilot opened the speed brakes for our checks, the two halves folded open to reveal two huge 5' long grease pencil dongs. Absolutely killed me, I had to collect myself for a second before reporting back to the pilot that the brakes were fully open and moving on.

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Beginning_Ad_6616@reddit

The important thing to remember is that aircraft maintenance draws sneaky dicks all over aircraft be they civilian or military. They don’t do it for themselves; they do it because want you to see their dick…

drawling.

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faughnjj@reddit

As a sheetmetal guy, I used to draw dicks on patches I installed (usually over the cutout if it was a scab patch). I always laughed when I came across them.

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Beginning_Ad_6616@reddit

Nothing is more rewarding than pulling a lav, panel, doubler, or whatever and finding a sharpie drawn dick….it makes all the effort that goes into repairing an aircraft worthwhile.

I think the funniest dick I’d have seen was on commercial aircraft pulled from heavy check. Once the morning sun hit the vertical stab aircraft it was clear that someone initially painted a massive dick on the tail and painted over it…quite the sight to behold. It was fixed before released; I don’t know who did it but everyone learned a valuable lesson that day.

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faughnjj@reddit

When we were transitioning the F-15's from Langley to I believe Korea, we had to repaint them all so they could put their base specific tail markings. Well, we always had a specific deviation from the camo scheme on the tails that we called " The Langley Cock and Balls"..... and shortly after the first one transitioned, we got an email from the gaining base. The gist of it was "We're not gonna say what we think it looks like, but you might want to pay closer attention to the TO....."Needless to say, we had to follow the data for the remaining jets that were transferred out.

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akroses161@reddit

Man someone drew a massive dick in an intake one night. It went from the inlet all the way to the fan blades. The base commander showed up for first goes the next morning and found it during his walk around. He called the Super over and ripped his ass right there on the flightline. Super had us scrubbing all of the intakes and wheels for the next month over that one.

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Beginning_Ad_6616@reddit

Secretly the base commander or hell even the maj com commander laughed and enjoyed see that all is well and boys will be boys.

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Maakrabe@reddit

Wang Was Here

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ChillZedd@reddit

Ancient Roman military personnel also drew dicks on everything. 2000 years from now archaeologists will be digging up aircraft parts with dicks on them and saying “wow they really were just like us”.

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wizardid@reddit

unsolicited flying dick pics

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chris782@reddit

Beautiful...

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ChristmasDayNoob@reddit

Just imagine being bombed to kingdom come by a machine covered in cocks…

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MaxStatic@reddit

This is why we’re feared.

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Castun@reddit

(F-16s, relevant to the story)

*Looks again at pictures*

Is it though? /s

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team-tree-syndicate@reddit

Happens in commercial too lol, my favorite find so far

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Complex_Advantage_47@reddit

Smuggler panels are a good spot, fun little surprise for the next TDY

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Ok-Explanation-4659@reddit

Do y’all also have a ton of random writings in the intakes? Must be crewdawg tradition lol

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Sol4-6@reddit

Right which NCD mf did this

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cheese2343J@reddit

That no F-16. It's an F-15. I was an F-15 crew chief in the US Air Force. It was probably done by the engine troops when it was pulled out for inspection/maintenance. It's a Pratt and Whitney F-100 engine to be specific. Same engine that's in the F-16, though. Only, F-16's have 1, while F-15's have 2. F-16's also have an oval shaped intake which causes them to be louder than the F-15 with its rectangular twin intakes.

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squirtleturtle79@reddit (OP)

Yeah I realized I goofed soon after I posted. Cant figure out how to change it.

You arent kidding when you say the F-16 is louder, they had one flying in the airshow and it did a low pass overhead. Never have I felt something so loud before.

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Exotic-Rabbit-9775@reddit

Die Antwort könnte dich verunsichern.

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ddnp9999@reddit

Ever heard of a tailpipe crawl?

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junk-trunk@reddit

when we were on the Eisenhower ( Army here) the navy guys tagged all of the walls behind the aft row of all of our aircraft ( we tagged everything we could reach with pur unit stickers so fair game ) most of us never did paint over their tags ( they did theirs in paint while we were snoozing) . memories I guess

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outdoorsgeek@reddit

Fun story! Now I’m curious what army aircraft embarks on a carrier?

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junk-trunk@reddit

I was with UH60s, but I do know 64 guys do deck quals also. The Army occasionally does combat ops from boats. it's how the 10th mountain got to Haiti in thr late 90s ( were most of the shenannigans took place, it was a long ride ). they hauled us down there then we did an air assault with the infantry into Haiti, and self deployed from the boat to the main land....I would have preferred to stay on the boat instead haha!

At the time 10th mountain only had H60s and OH58s ( and some hueys but they were medecac only) when we deployed to Haiti. I am sure 47s do it to. Of course the 160th works off of naval ships all over the place all the time.

Anyhoo went off on story time there a long way of saying alll of the Army's airframes can work off of aircraft carriers

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outdoorsgeek@reddit

Loved the story time and thanks for the info! I had known this was a possibility for rare cases. I had heard about specifically British 64s routinely operating off of carriers and maybe having some modifications for operating in a marine environment. But now I understand it’s much more common on the US side than I thought!

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junk-trunk@reddit

it is really maintenance heavy for the Army guys tho. obviously our stuff is not built with maritime in mind, so a lot of.corrosuon control goes into being near/around salt water. (ive never been Navy so I am not sure what their corrosion control look like) We did routinely go to Cherry Point every year to use their ranges and all planes fixed and rotory would buzz through the bird baths the have set up there after every flight ( a wet experience for us back seaters, the window and drip pan seals at the time were NOT the greatestloll ) also pretty cool grabbing hot gas sitting behind harriers and the like waiting for our turn to to get some go juice before parking. good times!

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outdoorsgeek@reddit

Thanks for sharing! Really cool to hear more of the backstory of how these operations work.

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LetStock@reddit

When it’s off

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theSamba42@reddit

Don't look in the intake...

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squirtleturtle79@reddit (OP)

Funnily enough most of the planes had their intakes covered, I wonder what theyre hiding...

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John_the_Piper@reddit

I've gotten yelled at for my line rat's intake art a few times before...

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RaptorFire22@reddit

One of my troops used a grease smear to draw a dick on the side of an F-16 centerline tank. That was not a fun convo with leadership.

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John_the_Piper@reddit

Goobers. Greese dicks go on bulkhead in the landing gear bay

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squirtleturtle79@reddit (OP)

Woops misidentified the plane. Oh well.

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nirvingau@reddit

London has an airshow?

https://airshowlondon.com/

Turns out it is in Canada and not the UK. Deflated.

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squirtleturtle79@reddit (OP)

Ah yeah, shouldve said that.

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ExchangeMore2592@reddit

Nice

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Basic-Type7994@reddit

Very carefully

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repairfox@reddit

It happened on the Boing assembly line

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TheOriginalJBones@reddit

🫡

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Glad-Professional194@reddit

You just crawl in there and hope no one turns the key

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No-cal@reddit

There ain't no key, but you already knew that.

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Glad-Professional194@reddit

Nope! No idea how i got here to r/aviation honestly, is it a push start?

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BeerGremlin@reddit

More like, pull start. Pull a handle that blows air bottles to start the JFS. JFS spins the central gearbox to spin the main engines. Introduce fuel with the throttles to light it off.

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SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK@reddit

But you still have a key fob though, right? Or is it an app?

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joesnopes@reddit

Of course! You don't really think Teslas have something F-15s don't?

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Glad-Professional194@reddit

That’s badass, thanks for the info!

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plane-kisser@reddit

crawl in there with a stick of chalk

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Reddit_sox@reddit

If she ain't 280, she ain't a lady

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escusadodeoro@reddit

Now that’s what I’m talking about bro! 😎

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Dennisfromhawaii@reddit

Them thighs do not lie

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quickblur@reddit

😂😂

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saladmunch2@reddit

Thats what in talking about!

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Present-Piano-2432@reddit

Am I the only one who finds twin engine planes look a hell of a lot better than single ones?

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Erzbengel-Raziel@reddit

How about the mirage 2000 tho?

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merlinunf@reddit

The same way you tag a sky scraper… you mount it.

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Crhallan@reddit

In the same way that Dave Yeeles is a big jobby. Tornado engineers know….

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Professional_Rise148@reddit

Anywhere there’s dirty planes, there’s crews drawing silly shit in the grime. GA, commercial, military alike.

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dfgyrdfhhrdhfr@reddit

Quickly!

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SnooDoodles4807@reddit

Believe it or not, it's just chalk.

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InitiativePale859@reddit

I know a guy he used to weld for the Air Force and they would tag the inside of engines all the time with their initials my father worked for NASA long time ago and went Apollo 11 the lunar module went to the Moon a lot of the engineers and scientists to pieces of paper with their initials and stuck it behind the foil to this day my mother and dad's name is on the moon

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PowwowPuffer@reddit

Dude, have you ever heard of punctuation!?

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InitiativePale859@reddit

Sure, I was using voice to text. That doesn't always put in proper punctuation.

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SirGirthfrmDickshire@reddit

Never heard of that Pokemon before.

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bigfatfun@reddit

Or, to this day your parents names are in a storage room behind a sound stage on a back lot at Area 51….

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N33chy@reddit

News conspiracy theory just dropped: Area 51 is on the moon.

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InevitableOk5017@reddit

Talk to me goose!

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Tristate82@reddit

Could also be backshop

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RMS_Carpathia1902@reddit

bravely

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_Californian@reddit

yeah well take take a look at this

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SadPhase2589@reddit

You should see the pics of your mom we drew in the inlet dirt. 😉

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Specialist_Reality96@reddit

100 000 years ago in the early 90's the squadron I was in had a F/A-18A engine stored in the hanger overnight it was going to some kind of careers expo, it left with F-111C APU stenciled on it.

There is a 3-5minte window directly after shutdown to enter the burner tube and inspect the turbine while it's hot and any cracks are more likely to be visible, assuming the burner tube is big enough, you needed to squat and not touch the sides of the tube with anything other than your boots, usually using the torch for balance.

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Skylynx224@reddit

There's a silver pencil we use in the air force on F16 engines to mark cracks in the augmentor liner and monitor them. Idk what it's made of but it doesn't seem to get burnt off. This crew chief seems to have had fun with his pencil. https://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/topages/silverpencil.php

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