← Back to Squawk list

Ooops! First Dutch F-35A Accidentally Gets Foam Party Instead of Water Salute

4년 전 제출됨

In an embarrassing gaff by the Dutch military, the first operational F-35A Lightning II for the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNlAF) got coated in firefighting foam instead of water when the aircraft arrived at Leeuwarden Air Base on Thursday. The incident wound up on Redditt.com, where a string of amusing and off-color remarks immediately followed. (theaviationist.com) 기타...

Tom Novak

23 멤버 코멘트

Sort type: [Top] [Newest]

Pamela Kinnane 4년 전 14

...You had one job...

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•Report

Antonello Davi 4년 전 1

nice

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

Dave Mathes 4년 전 0

.....yea?...what was that.......

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

Peter Maas 4년 전 10

Foam??? Water??? It should have been BEER. Heineken

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•Report

Jim Nasby 4년 전 1

Heineken counts as beer? ð

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

kaundere 4년 전 0

Heineken? you mean yellow water?

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

[This poster has been suspended.]

john doe 4년 전 2

That's what I thought, too. Never seen it spelled w/o the "e".

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

Dean Skora 4년 전 1

Even funnier is, if you do a Google search for "gaff", what images come up.

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

Spencer Hoefer 4년 전 6

The person that did this must of been the same guy that painted both end zones with the same team for the Superbowl a couple years ago lol.

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•Report

Mike Mohle 4년 전 2

Or, the "Chefs".

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

SmokedChops 4년 전 1

great googly-moogly..

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

Falconus 4년 전 5

Isn't that foam supposed to be pretty corrosive? I.e. really bad for aircraft that aren't on fire?

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•Report

Don Wilson 4년 전 4

Highly corrosive, needed a fresh water wash down immediately after exposure.

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

Toby Sharp 4년 전 7

hell I wouldn't even spray water on an F-35!

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

Tomer Ariav 4년 전 2

LOL

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report

Mike Williams 4년 전 5

Looks like someone had forgotten "windshield" wipers. At the price of that superplane.

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•Report

Christian Parada 4년 전 3

I think the same thing happened with a Virgin Airlines plane on its maiden flight.

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•Report

alex hidveghy 4년 전 -1

Virgin airlines? Which one? There’s no such thing as virgin airlines!
There is a Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia. And there was a Virgin America and Virgin Express.
So, again, which one??ð¤ð

응답 ↓•퍼머링크•모•Report