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Fuel dumping is a procedure used by aircraft in certain emergency situations before a return to the airport shortly after take-off, or before landing short of its destination to reduce the landing weight.
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Why does the F-111 sometimes squirt a giant fire plume behind it? (NOT afterburners!)
As seen in multiple pictures:
First, this one, it appears the aircraft is spraying copious amounts of fuel into the exhaust!
Surely this provides no thrust, not in the way an afterburner (which the …
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