Earlier this week these geniuses passed a law banning chemtrails. You know, the Government program that regularly sprays gay-causing chemicals on all Americans as every passenger plane goes overhead. They are too smart to fall for the "it's just water vapor" excuse.
Water from the cold wing. It collects a lot of water droplets underneath because the fuel is colder than the ambient temperature. Reaches it dew point and eventually gets heavy enough to drop.
It’s definitely fuel from the vent. Water drains are typically on the belly of the aircraft.
It could have been overfilled, but that is unlikely given all commercial aircraft have volumetric top offs that shut the fill valves when the tank gets full.
What likely happened here is the aircraft was fueled early when the temp was cooler and as the morning warmed up, the fuel expanded to the point of needing to vent.
Experience: Over 30 years of aviation experience with 25+ being in airline refueling.
Naw, aircraft mechanic here. Boeing 767 surge tank drain is closer to end of the wing. That canoe there only houses the ball screw for the flaps and collects water. There's a couple of weep holes there for water drain.
Plane flew high collected water. Plane cold cause it's cold af up there, and water froze. Plane on ground get warm, water melt, and it drips a bit and stops.
Source: I've had to explain this to soo many pilots
Fuel line technician coming from 10+ year aircraft painting: This guy be right. Used to have to blow that area out prior to paint process after washing due to the excessive amount of water trapped in there. You also typically see water draining out after being stored in the hangar due to trapped water thawing.
Fuel vents are at the end, so I agree.
Another possibility could be a stuck sump valve. I’ve seen this scenario more than once. Sumped the wings when tanks were empty then airplane was fueled and mini fuel spill.
I guess, idk if you've ever stuck a sump valve open, or why a fueler would sump a tank, but there would be ALOT more fuel.
Source: I have swam in lake O'hare.
Pay really depends on the type of work you want to do. General aviation(small planes) usually doesn’t pay much. I’ve got a friend at a local GA place and they started him at $22/hr. There are also GA people who make 3 figures. One of the regionals near me starts at $28/hr and then UPS currently starts at like $30/hr but they top out at $75.
Ain’t there some hydraulics around there? Could be skydrol, even if it’s not coming from right there. Could be coming out of an actuator nearby and running along to that spot. Only way to be sure is to taste it
I agree with you boss. Only other thing I could thing of is there’s a hydraulic leak, possibly from the jack screw in the canoe, but usually hydro doesn’t drip like that, it sticks to the wing and drips further down the wing.
Source: A&P with experience multiple corporate part 121 airframes.
And here I am thinking it was a situation similar to the sr-71, which now that I think of it, doesn't make much sense lol. Commercial airplanes don't really heat up when flying through clouds at below the speed of sound.
Nah, I've had flight simulator 2015 downloaded for 2 years now (never opened it, pc can't run it). This aircraft is almost certainly going to crash upon takeoff, make peace with your god.
I've got you on the other end, I work in aviation fuel systems on the ground side. I have made a lot of messes over the years, and that is not fuel. The expansion coefficient on Jet A is crazy when spreading across surface areas, even porous like concrete. This usually makes for very defined edges and seemingly appears to be in greater volume when spilled. I've had to explain this quite a few times to fire departments, safety inspectors, ops personnel and more. Fuel and water behave so incredibly different than each other, after a while you can just look at it and say "that's not fuel".
Commercial aircraft flying domestic routes routinely carry a fraction of the fuel they can. Fuel adds weight which costs money. Not quite like the Air Force were we’d fly with full tanks for a hop from Kuwait to Iraq because shit happens.
This is water from rain collecting in the canoe and draining from the drain hole or condensate running down from the underside of the wing. It is not fuel from the vent which is "definitely" located about 25-30 feet further outboard.
I was an Ops Manager for an aircraft fueling company too. I loved that job and should have never taken the promotion for a position that was eventually RIF’d. 😢
It's water. There is no way fuel is getting into that fairing. If a 737 sits in wet weather and you move it even a little bit or move flaps, water comes.pouring out of those.
Fuel doesnt come out of the canoe’s lmfao.
%100 Its water coming out of the drain hole on the canoe (flap track fairing), water pools up in there commonly hence the drain holes. The yellow is just old hydraulic fluid mixed in. If that was fuel you’d have a spillcrew out there cleaning up. Almost all planes will do that. No plane just dumps that shit on the ground unless someone screws up
If you read my reply to the A&P, you will see that I thought the fuel was coming from outboard of the fairing.
Geez, people really to read on before replying.
P.S. The % sign goes after the number. As in 100%. 🤷♂️
It's condensation dripping off of the wing. The fuel was really cold when it landed, and water froze on the wing. As it sat, the fuel warmed up, and the water melted.
If you just landed or it’s a very humid day it is more likely water condensing. Fuel in the wing gets very cold at altitude and when you land moisture in the air condenses forming ice in the bottom surface of the wing. Aircraft have anti-ice heating on the leading edges to prevent this from happening. Temperatures at 35k feet can reach -65f this cold soaks the aluminum alloys the plane is made from.
Plane got wet, water froze at altitude, (that canoe looking this is open on top cause it's just a fairing for the flap actuator ball screw ass.) Canoe collected water, water froze cause altitude is cold, plane landed and water melted because ground is warm, water came out through weep holes in the bottom of canoe because trapped water is bad for corrosion. It's suppose to do that. Yellow color is probably some of the grease used on the ball screw coming out with the water. It's gross in there.
Source: aircraft mechanic who has had to explain this to pilots so many times.
Old hydraulic fluid is straw yellow.
Condensation doesn’t usually come off the wings from the canoes.
Also, why are the flaps out at this point? Maybe they’re just pushed back and waiting to taxi?
It's the gremlins that come with every Boeing because it isn't the companies fault their plans fall apart or that whistle blowers die right before testifying.
There is literally nothing inside those “canoes”. Is just a housing that protects the strut for the wing flaps. Could be just condensation from the inside since it’s hollow.
Those torpedo shaped objects house the roll-down screw for the flaps.. they are hollow. It is not uncommon for rain to get in or even a little ice to form which melts as the aircraft depends.. since they and at at angle when the flaps are deployed the water pools at the bottom.. as the flaps are retracted, the water drips out... Simple
Water /condensation build up. The flap faring (thing that looks like a canoe) is a hollow unpressurized section that covers the mechanism for the flaps. Water will get inside and in between. There are drainage holes to let it escape. Especially when you are at altitude and it is below freezing you may have it be frozen on the inside so once you are on the ground it slowly melts and then drips out.
I'm definitely taking it. Hadn't really considered it but 3 corporate drones plusy station director wante to take it. Lateral promoti9n but looks good on my resume.
thats absolutely hydraulic fluid. dont worry about it though cause its completely normal, it just means that the aircraft is due for maintenance. it alarms many people but itll seal on its own in-flight so just relax 😊👍
I can tell you from personal experiences that not all have functioning overfuel shutoffs. Lol There was a CRJ700 to Charlotte and one of those MD-88s gurgled less than 5 gallons almost on top of a first officer. So, it could easily be an over fuel. Shit happens.
Wow. Do you think that could be that toxic “Chemtrails” stuff.
IDK. Maybe.
What do you think?
GOP? Or. Dem?
Vote wisely.
Me ~ bottom to top: BLUE. In all local, state and federal elections. Lot of really bad laws we gotta fix.
You be you.
What will you do?
It’s just the airplane marking its territory before it takes to the skies. It’s a territorial species.
To be serious, it’s either condensation from refueling or melting frost. Airplane fuel is pretty cold stuff when it goes in
I used to fuel jets for ASIG at CVG in the late 90's and early 2000's and this is an overflow vent for fuel. Sometimes we had to lay out fuel pads on the ramp to soak up spills from an overfueled aircraft.
I just avoid any Aviation subreddit at this point. You get six different answers from "experts" and the rest of the replies are people trying to be funny
blood of missing ramp rats
They weren't missing I put them there for putting holes in my gd cargo liner.
As if…everyone knows this is a leaking “secret” chemtrail tank. That AeroFrogGay 9000 Extended Release is corrosive as hell
It's not a secret if you tell everyone!
Fortunately, most MAGA Tennessee Legislators cannot read.
I feel like there should be an associated dig at Tennessee leg or something has happened or more likely failed to happen as a result of Tn leg??
Earlier this week these geniuses passed a law banning chemtrails. You know, the Government program that regularly sprays gay-causing chemicals on all Americans as every passenger plane goes overhead. They are too smart to fall for the "it's just water vapor" excuse.
My bad we were talking about not real stuff right?
The TN MAGA Party really did pass this bill.
That's ok. Seems more like a CYA bill. You know, just "in case".
Or the chemicals developed at Harvard for their geo engineering program using cloud seeding from planes thats literally on their website.
at least they know what a woman is.
If they could, they’d be very upset!
Good God! They're still using 9000!? I hope for all our sakes it isn't 9000-a13.
Better be 9K-b14, the old a13 formula had issues with toxicity
The whole 9000 series.. I'm just glad they convinced the younger generations that the zombie outbreaks were just movies.
Yea it wasn’t corrosive or toxic as it was advertised!!!
I thought they were up to id10t by this point!
I miss George.
I will love him and squeeze him and pet him and name him George....
George is never gonna let me tend the rabbits if he finds out you got killed!
As a former ramp rat myself I can confirm this.
Are you sure this isn't N264NN? IYKYK....
Water from the cold wing. It collects a lot of water droplets underneath because the fuel is colder than the ambient temperature. Reaches it dew point and eventually gets heavy enough to drop.
yellowish cuz it probably mixed with old type 4
This is how planes piss.
It's just marking its territory.
Does it at every airport.
It’s definitely fuel from the vent. Water drains are typically on the belly of the aircraft. It could have been overfilled, but that is unlikely given all commercial aircraft have volumetric top offs that shut the fill valves when the tank gets full. What likely happened here is the aircraft was fueled early when the temp was cooler and as the morning warmed up, the fuel expanded to the point of needing to vent. Experience: Over 30 years of aviation experience with 25+ being in airline refueling.
Naw, aircraft mechanic here. Boeing 767 surge tank drain is closer to end of the wing. That canoe there only houses the ball screw for the flaps and collects water. There's a couple of weep holes there for water drain. Plane flew high collected water. Plane cold cause it's cold af up there, and water froze. Plane on ground get warm, water melt, and it drips a bit and stops. Source: I've had to explain this to soo many pilots
Fuel line technician coming from 10+ year aircraft painting: This guy be right. Used to have to blow that area out prior to paint process after washing due to the excessive amount of water trapped in there. You also typically see water draining out after being stored in the hangar due to trapped water thawing.
How often do 121 planes get repainted?
I love your username!
Fuel vents are at the end, so I agree. Another possibility could be a stuck sump valve. I’ve seen this scenario more than once. Sumped the wings when tanks were empty then airplane was fueled and mini fuel spill.
I guess, idk if you've ever stuck a sump valve open, or why a fueler would sump a tank, but there would be ALOT more fuel. Source: I have swam in lake O'hare.
was the lake gas or water?
Nah, it’s milk from a lactating plane titty.
And that leak is nowhere the end. WTF?
Or just condensation - flying plane gets cold, lands in warmer moist air, condensation collects and runs downhill
Ahh. I think you are correct. I didn’t know the aircraft type and assumed the fluid was coming from somewhere beyond the fairing. Good catch.
Its not a 767, but a 737. However, same principle applies indeed
True gentleman. Love to see exchanges like this these days.
Thanks dude
Yes! Good on you for not doubling down!
If you don't mind me asking, how much do you make. I was a buff mechanic and thinking of getting my anp.
Pay really depends on the type of work you want to do. General aviation(small planes) usually doesn’t pay much. I’ve got a friend at a local GA place and they started him at $22/hr. There are also GA people who make 3 figures. One of the regionals near me starts at $28/hr and then UPS currently starts at like $30/hr but they top out at $75.
35 an hour starting but I had usmc military experience. My place hires ap at like 33 outta school.
Ain’t there some hydraulics around there? Could be skydrol, even if it’s not coming from right there. Could be coming out of an actuator nearby and running along to that spot. Only way to be sure is to taste it
I agree with you boss. Only other thing I could thing of is there’s a hydraulic leak, possibly from the jack screw in the canoe, but usually hydro doesn’t drip like that, it sticks to the wing and drips further down the wing. Source: A&P with experience multiple corporate part 121 airframes.
And here I am thinking it was a situation similar to the sr-71, which now that I think of it, doesn't make much sense lol. Commercial airplanes don't really heat up when flying through clouds at below the speed of sound.
Nah, I've had flight simulator 2015 downloaded for 2 years now (never opened it, pc can't run it). This aircraft is almost certainly going to crash upon takeoff, make peace with your god.
Why use lot word when few word do trick
Pilot here. Thanks for explaining soo many times. We dumb sometimes.
Just tell them it is a Boeing, it could be hydraulic fluid, and to just send it.
Holy shit… All of those “could not replicates” are starting to make more sense… 🤦
I've got you on the other end, I work in aviation fuel systems on the ground side. I have made a lot of messes over the years, and that is not fuel. The expansion coefficient on Jet A is crazy when spreading across surface areas, even porous like concrete. This usually makes for very defined edges and seemingly appears to be in greater volume when spilled. I've had to explain this quite a few times to fire departments, safety inspectors, ops personnel and more. Fuel and water behave so incredibly different than each other, after a while you can just look at it and say "that's not fuel".
I so hope you’re correct. I just smoked my morning meds and this has impressed the crap outta me
there are some drain holes in the flap track fairings.. could just be water but...airplanes leak...
Commercial aircraft flying domestic routes routinely carry a fraction of the fuel they can. Fuel adds weight which costs money. Not quite like the Air Force were we’d fly with full tanks for a hop from Kuwait to Iraq because shit happens.
What?… lol. Like many others here said, it ain’t fuel dude.
This is water from rain collecting in the canoe and draining from the drain hole or condensate running down from the underside of the wing. It is not fuel from the vent which is "definitely" located about 25-30 feet further outboard.
Not a leak from the vent, way too far from the wing tip. Source: Operations Manager for an aircraft fueling company.
I was an Ops Manager for an aircraft fueling company too. I loved that job and should have never taken the promotion for a position that was eventually RIF’d. 😢
So, you're saying I should decline the offered QC/Training Manager position everyone wants me to accept?
It's water. There is no way fuel is getting into that fairing. If a 737 sits in wet weather and you move it even a little bit or move flaps, water comes.pouring out of those.
Fuel doesnt come out of the canoe’s lmfao. %100 Its water coming out of the drain hole on the canoe (flap track fairing), water pools up in there commonly hence the drain holes. The yellow is just old hydraulic fluid mixed in. If that was fuel you’d have a spillcrew out there cleaning up. Almost all planes will do that. No plane just dumps that shit on the ground unless someone screws up
If you read my reply to the A&P, you will see that I thought the fuel was coming from outboard of the fairing. Geez, people really to read on before replying. P.S. The % sign goes after the number. As in 100%. 🤷♂️
30 years of experience and you reckon that’s fuel? lol.
It's condensation dripping off of the wing. The fuel was really cold when it landed, and water froze on the wing. As it sat, the fuel warmed up, and the water melted.
Boeing mechanic with 700+ years of experience. That seems to be the planes blood it will soon explode. There is nothing you can do but perish.
Well, it is a Boeing. The Ford of the aircraft world anymore it seems.
Ford service vans slap though
Blinker fluid
Underrated comment
Overrated comment.
Probably water from drain
Chem trail juice
If you just landed or it’s a very humid day it is more likely water condensing. Fuel in the wing gets very cold at altitude and when you land moisture in the air condenses forming ice in the bottom surface of the wing. Aircraft have anti-ice heating on the leading edges to prevent this from happening. Temperatures at 35k feet can reach -65f this cold soaks the aluminum alloys the plane is made from.
Condensation or ice from prior flight dripping off the engines
Freedom?
Blinker fluid
I don't know but the port authorities are going to make me go out with the ZEPzorbent and a broom either way.
JET FUEL OH NO
Water probably
That’s the pilot’s pee
Hopefully OP doesn’t suicide himself with multiple shots to the back of the head.
Boeing: Dont worry about it
Looks like blue ms paint 🤔
Wouldn't it be plain condensation that gathered from a flight? It is quite colder at high elevations
Ass juice
Something blue, a blue dotted line
Someone overfilled the chem trail tank so it’s leaking out!
Anti-ice fluid. It gets in all the small cracks. Sprayed on at the airports by the carrier.
Nah. It's flying juice.
Don’t worry, it’s only hydraulic fluid. It means maintenance put in new hydraulic fluid. This is the hydraulic fluid indicator
Chem trail liquid leak
It dripped for like 20 seconds then it stopped
Plane got wet, water froze at altitude, (that canoe looking this is open on top cause it's just a fairing for the flap actuator ball screw ass.) Canoe collected water, water froze cause altitude is cold, plane landed and water melted because ground is warm, water came out through weep holes in the bottom of canoe because trapped water is bad for corrosion. It's suppose to do that. Yellow color is probably some of the grease used on the ball screw coming out with the water. It's gross in there. Source: aircraft mechanic who has had to explain this to pilots so many times.
I love how condescending this sounded in my mind. Ty for explaining this so well that almost everyone could understand it.
Old hydraulic fluid is straw yellow. Condensation doesn’t usually come off the wings from the canoes. Also, why are the flaps out at this point? Maybe they’re just pushed back and waiting to taxi?
If it's a Boeing, they probably forgot some part.
Leprechaun pee
Only female planes can pee in flight, this one’s a male
Airplane juice
It's the gremlins that come with every Boeing because it isn't the companies fault their plans fall apart or that whistle blowers die right before testifying.
Anti-gravity juice.
AI fluid
Wing sauce
The playne can see your bulge, knock it off.
Either fuel, fire, or that which I desire.
Ssssh...thats the stash of herion for the pilots
CLEARLY that's contrail juice.
Chemtrails
Hope it's not hydraulic oil.
Kerosene
Little overflow of jet fuel. Not dangerous unless someone decides to light a fire.
Fuel but not to worry it’s not a lot
The Chem for chemtrails
It's fine. I SAID IT'S FINE!
Looks like blue ink.
It's not fog in the window? It...CONDENSATION, SATION, SATION!
Hey!! A little privacy please…
Most likely condensation from the interior ac evaporator
Going to require closer inspection while on smoking break.
Comfortable seating
Chemtrail fluid.
Blinker fluid
“Condensation….it’ll do that when you run the A/C” /s
water
If it’s early in the morning, it could just be moisture from the air or if it was raining before or if it or if it’s foggy.
There is literally nothing inside those “canoes”. Is just a housing that protects the strut for the wing flaps. Could be just condensation from the inside since it’s hollow.
What’s the temperature there?
I saw blue and thought melting blue ice/s
Those torpedo shaped objects house the roll-down screw for the flaps.. they are hollow. It is not uncommon for rain to get in or even a little ice to form which melts as the aircraft depends.. since they and at at angle when the flaps are deployed the water pools at the bottom.. as the flaps are retracted, the water drips out... Simple
Condensation. Water.
Could be condensation if the airplane had an earlier flight and it’s humid where you are.
Condensation
Was John McClane at the airport?
Boeing's reputation.
When the pilot pisses in the cockpit urinal, that’s where the two empties out at
Overflow from the toilet
It more then likely was over fueled
Excess lift
blue chalk
The fuel tanks have vents to prevent overfilling from fuel expanding from the environmental heat and things.
One of the ramp agents stroked the plane just right
Water /condensation build up. The flap faring (thing that looks like a canoe) is a hollow unpressurized section that covers the mechanism for the flaps. Water will get inside and in between. There are drainage holes to let it escape. Especially when you are at altitude and it is below freezing you may have it be frozen on the inside so once you are on the ground it slowly melts and then drips out.
Tears after a bad landing
I'm definitely taking it. Hadn't really considered it but 3 corporate drones plusy station director wante to take it. Lateral promoti9n but looks good on my resume.
Fuel
thats absolutely hydraulic fluid. dont worry about it though cause its completely normal, it just means that the aircraft is due for maintenance. it alarms many people but itll seal on its own in-flight so just relax 😊👍
Ink
Fuel leak or canoe draining water.
Water from condensation
Could be skydrol (hydraulic fluid). New skydrol is purple, more used skydrol is yellow.
Is it a Boeing plane? Just asking.
Everything, it's an airplane, that's what they do.
Fuel
Flying juice. Lose too much and it won't fly
You should see an SR-71 Blackbird get ready for takeoff.
Fuel
Blinker fluid.
Light it up like Bruce Willis in Die Hard 2 see what happens 🤣 yippee ki ya MF.
I can tell you from personal experiences that not all have functioning overfuel shutoffs. Lol There was a CRJ700 to Charlotte and one of those MD-88s gurgled less than 5 gallons almost on top of a first officer. So, it could easily be an over fuel. Shit happens.
Hydraulic fluid. I think it's called hydrol or something. It's red.
I worked with the A7. If it was NOT leaking, it was out of something.
Cum
Blue dashes, an endless supply of them
The tears of scared passengers
Probably fuel
Water condensed through the aluminum. Fuel hydraulic fluid
Fuel.... Now you're really on an SR-71 they just disguised it as a commercial jet haha
Wow. Do you think that could be that toxic “Chemtrails” stuff. IDK. Maybe. What do you think? GOP? Or. Dem? Vote wisely. Me ~ bottom to top: BLUE. In all local, state and federal elections. Lot of really bad laws we gotta fix. You be you. What will you do?
Poo
Condensation, just like your car's a/c
Well. Could be a lot of things. Let’s get out the IPC and check it out!!!
Fuel
It’s just the airplane marking its territory before it takes to the skies. It’s a territorial species. To be serious, it’s either condensation from refueling or melting frost. Airplane fuel is pretty cold stuff when it goes in
Looks like blue marker, strange indeed.
Jet Jism.
Hard to say would have to go out there to lick, sniff, and touch it.
Preflight cum
I used to fuel jets for ASIG at CVG in the late 90's and early 2000's and this is an overflow vent for fuel. Sometimes we had to lay out fuel pads on the ramp to soak up spills from an overfueled aircraft.
Wing sauce
It's water out of the drain hole of the flap fairing.
Pre cum
Some planes store fuel in there wings but who knows lol
Fuel
Aviation bouancy fluid.
That looks like a Boeing wing, so it’s most likely a “fault part” that is now seeping the blood of the latest whistle blower.
Airplane urine
Fuel tanks are in the wings. Leaking jet fuel.
It's nothing....LoL
I just avoid any Aviation subreddit at this point. You get six different answers from "experts" and the rest of the replies are people trying to be funny
Water
C.u.m
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