Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site bunker.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!godot!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ittvax!bunker!gmm From: gmm@bunker.UUCP (Gregory M. Mandas) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: "Below Bingo" (a guess) Message-ID: <574@bunker.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 09:20:53 EDT Article-I.D.: bunker.574 Posted: Fri Oct 12 09:20:53 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 08:44:48 EDT References: <5183@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Bunker Ramo, Trumbull Ct Lines: 12 In the last issue of flying magazine they did a review on the f-18. After 1.25 hours a computer voice come over the intercom and said, "bingo", to indicate a low fuel condition. The reviewer said the fuel lines must have been fire hoses. The 2,200 gallons of fuel lasted 1.25 hours with intermitent use of the afterburners. On full afterburners the fuel would have been gone in 15 minutes. Greg Mandas ittvax!bunker!gmm