Sunday, September 27, 2009

Big tip tank 230 liters for Fouga

After talking with Christian Berard, in 1996 the French Air Force prohibited the use of the 230 liters tip tanks, baned them for installation on fougas because they found some cracks in the fiber glass at the root of the front tank attachment.
Thoses tanks had to be stripped of the paint every 18 month and inspected for cracks and maintened by inspection requirement before 1996 .
On a fouga in the French Air Force, one tank broke off from the front attachment and stayed up right at the tip of the wing holding by the rear attachment point ,making the flight very difficult. The aircraft landed safely.
Accident occurred Saturday, June 16, 2001 at La Crosse, WIAircraft:Fouga CM 170, registration: N301FM 2 dead .
If the word came around before it would not have happened.

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