OT: Dornier Flamethrower?

i saw that too and went, huh? never heard about that and google isn't helping.

FWIW I have seen this device mentioned several times in my reading over the years, mostly in connection with Heinkel He-111s. It was obviously not at all successful, and I believe the crews were not enthusiastic about carrying another container of flammable liquid into battle either. Only picture I have ever seen was a small pipe sticking out of the underside of the tail of a He-111 and labeled as the "barrel"?

Bill Shuey

man, i spen two solid hours on google and another at the library finding nothing. must have been a real dude. and short lived. anyone help? this has become an obsession.

wonder how well an undirected flame would operate at 250 +/- mph with headwinds, prop wash, etc...

Craig.

Very well...if you can get the flame front to propagate behind the aircraft...

Here's an Aussie F-111 dumping fuel and then lighting the afterburners to ignite it:

There are several good pics of this stunt on pages 4 and 5; you may recall that they also did it at night at the closing ceremonies of the Austrailian Olympics over Sydney Harbor...or is that "Harbour"?..

An F-111 can do this because the fuel dump outlet is located between the engine exhausts. I'm told that Tomcats used to do this trick as well, but that the USN brass passed the word to knock it off.

i suspect that those variables are what made it fail.

how could i do this on the beast to smoke them asshole tailgaters?

I knew a guy once that rigged spark plugs into his tail pipes to produce backfires at will on his street rod...a little copper tubing, a bottle, some gassoline, a spark plug, and a little ingenuity...

old hot rodders trick. impressive at night. hmm, ok lady, wanna ride my ass? here!

You don't need any added gasoline--just a spark plug threaded into the tail pipe and a rich carb. I remember seeing one in action back in the '50s. Impressive but hard on exhaust systems.

MB