[TheForge] What the hell?

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

I knew a guy at LAX airport whose job it was to run a powerful vacume 
truck on the runways in down times. He said the average 747 dropped a 
full bucket of bolts on each takeoff and landing.  pf

Andrew Vida wrote:
> Standard test of passenger engines is that it has to ingest a 20 or 25# 
> frozen bird without disrupting operation, or at least it was years ago. 
>   I've seen the high speed footage of such tests.  It appears almost 
> unreal to see the fan slicing the frozen bird into perfect segments.
> 
> I've seen similar tests using a 1" bolt dropped into the fan from above. 
>    If it remains outboard and passes through the bypass duct, the engine 
> can continue to function.  Inboard is a very different story, however, 
> as it gets into the actual power unit.
> 
> Jerry Frost wrote:
>> Those are windshield tests, search out "Rooster 
>> Booster" for details.
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